Quiet

 I had to walk away
To find quiet
As day breaks
Cool air seeps away

The urban motor rider
Spews dust under tyre
Spreading noise
As dead seeds

Bobcat trucks patrol
Highway tar
Road trains move,
Rumbling, immodest beasts

Finally diversity
In grasslands

In places where buffel
(Blasted buffel grass)
Is controlled
With regular eradication 

I can hear the birds

Amongst quiet rocks.


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