for three nights
the one cicada’s shrill –
waning moon
Lorin Ford
billabong
the whirligig-beetle
whirling to frog-song
Cynthia Rowe
ants scurry
across the laterite
the numbat’s tongue
Liana Joy
creek’s green algae
a water-strider sucks
on a fly
Mark Miller
my pet stick insect
disappears in the swoop
of a magpie
Keitha Keyes
evening sun
skimming the pool
dragonfly shadows
Jan Napier
Echidna Tracks 