native animals – Echidna Tracks

gannets banking
through a flash of light
ocean sunrise

Danny Carney

desert sunrise
a cockatoo’s wings
ignite

Ewan Rourke

night hunt
a dingo’s howl
calling in Orion

wanda amos

picnic lunch . . .
a feast of bird song
in a forest glade

Elaine Riddell

a red-belly black
claims right of way
fire trail

Jan Dobb

country road
the disappearing stump
of a blue tongue

Rose van Son

voices in the night . . .
the stars maintain
their silence

Elaine Riddell

fruit bat cries—
the sound of the shape
of a hillside

Tom Staudt

Category: native animals