by Colleen Keating
whistling kites
firebirds of the sky
hang
on up-drafts of air
eyeing prey
in the blackened patchwork of burn off
we wander
through hundreds of termites mounds
their north-south stance
a graveyard of magnetic headstones
tread lightly
this land a remnant of Gondwanaland*
is a library of books still to be written
* Name given to an ancient
supercontinent. It is believed to have sutured
between about 570 to 510 million years ago.