Kati Thanda–Lake
Eyre in Flood
Today the land
is singing.
She sings with
rains from the North
filling river-beds
boiling with fish
guiding the clever
pelicans
following the first
trickle down
singing through
the channel of
water, bird,
insect, wind
a haunting, meandering
song
drifting across
and through
her long desert dreaming.
She has been slow
to stir, but when she does
she smiles and
welcomes the flow
as it funnels-in
and spreads
painting a fresh
scene
on an ancient theme
free from cruel
and ugly shackles
trappings of
modernity
seeking to
control her music
She opens her
heart
her voice rising
to crescendo
giving thanks
giving back
giving, and giving
and giving
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