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Ode to Warrigal Creek Massacre ¬¬

–The Warrigal Creek Massacre of the Gunaikurnai people by Angus MacMillan and others occurred in 1843 and its story can be found in Wikipedia and elsewhere–

I am bent in hope to its wind

with self-many mercies and a timeless hearth

the angry howl of a tied-up dog for

reconciliation with my own country

and shining light on a darkness in a world

of trespass

I am part of this shame   disputed lands in its foreign conquest

a primitive dispossession as by deaths

time’s sailed past in a bloody murder

now in pain I silently knead this atrophy

a misanthropy. Made as comment,

for this, a plaque to heroically

scold calling mourning day  and no longer

afraid to be charmed by its name

of Warrigal Creek  but a trolling

of something

despoiled    as the litter of bones

makes a desert in the wind  a waste.

Grieving over my country  and with other

voices  let my cry of shame be

revealed.

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Shangri-la  a drought in summer.