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The Hanging Gardens.(Poem)

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| June 01, 2002 | Murray, Les | COPYRIGHT 2002 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

 
THE HANGING GARDENS 
 
   High on the Gloucester road 
   just before it wriggles its hips 
   level with eagles down the gorge 
   into the coastal hills 
 
   there were five beige pea-chickens 
   sloping under the farm fence 
   in a nervous unison of head-tufts 
   up to the garden where they lived 
 
   then along the gutter and bank 
   adult birds, grazing in full serpent. 
   Their colours are too saturate and cool 
   to see at first with dryland eyes 
 
   trained to drab ...

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