daybreak service
weak light on heavy shoulders
fading bugle notes
raindrops inside collars –
an uneasy shiver

rear-vision mirror –
eucalypts and scrabbly greens
peripheral
to the swirling dust storms
of encroaching bulldozers

strung on wire fences
wind-whipped plastics
Australia’s white Christmas
fag ends and Macca’s red
decking the foreground