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Word power: poet contemplates emu

Weathered blond as a grass tree, a huge Beatles haircut

raises an alert periscope and stares out

So, irresistibly, begins Les Murray’s Second Essay on Interest: The Emu.

The splendid picture above  (Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0″) shows the top of the periscope, which rises from the “huge Beatles haircut”.

You can read the full poem here

If this is your first encounter with  Les Murray, welcome to one of the English language’s greatest living poets!

 

 

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One Comment

  1. Pat Kershaw Pat Kershaw

    Clever: intertwining white Australian history and the emu – two strange birds.

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