summer heat
backpackers chill
within hostel walls
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King Parrots
in boughs above the path—
people watching
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afternoon kayak—
lake carp spotlit
in slanting sunbeams
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/
each stone turned —
a wriggling protest
against the light
a
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a
stones
skimming
ripples from each touch
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reading indoors
on a wintry afternoon
sun on my socks
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Echidna Tracks 