Lighting the Bushman Fire Before the Others Rise.(Poem)

From: The Literary Review | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Kinsella, John | Copyright information 
Lighting the Bushman Fire 
Before the Others Rise 
 
   Sun crisp on the curve of Bakewell 
   is lymphatic in the gulley--coldest point 
   fused with flock of pink and grey galahs 
   scattering enigmatically; sear flux 
   in confused canopy, what is light, 
   flesh, feathers? I step out for kindling 
   and cut wood, the air grating 
   neck and shoulders ache, like sand 
   in the works. A nervous remnant 
   of last evening's feud works its tic: 
   the horse woman of the hill 
   ...

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