Death of a Kangaroo
Cobwebs sag, gloomy clouds
like a furrowed brow
loom over the house-
a kangaroo lies dying on
our country road .
A car's apologetic screech-
a deathly thud-
the twisted scrambling
of a broken creature,
and I, watching dumbstuck,
as it sprawls, drawing at
underbrush with frantic forepaws -
reluctant to let go of life
and earth
When others of its kind
came back to find its
carcass, devoid of warmth,
they shed opalescent tears of grief
Tears with the scent of eucalypts
and raindrops
A mute devotion
reflecting aspects of me.
Copyright © Suzanne Delaney | Year Posted 2013
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