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Making Up for Lost Time.(Poem)

Quadrant

| June 01, 2006 | Compton, Jennifer | COPYRIGHT 2006 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME 
 
   as all around the house nature groans urgently 
   I lean into the secret wire that takes me to the world 
 
   tonight, the frog will not hop like one wet gumboot 
   along the verandah, no, nor the stiff-necked almost 
 
   owl gaze into the heart of light that moths crave 
   these were occasions on another night, before 
 
   the frogs dwindled, hid under stones 
   bogongs were not summoned by the rains 
 
   there were no rains, and no frog song either 
   out in the paddock, and spreading further out 
 
   a soundscape with a vanishing point 
   the tap of my keys pattering like rain 
 
   when our house was lit up to the skies ...
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