Legacy.(Poem)

 
   Because his father was an initiate, my father learned things 
   that many people have forgotten: why you should sit and wait 
   for the elders to invite you into camp; that a good layer of river 
   clay will confound mosquitoes; how to make a bull-roarer and return a 
   boomerang; what brown snake, bush eggs and midden molluscs taste 
   like; where to dig up bardee grubs; how to catch yabbies and 
   goanna; why you should never walk through a willy-willy; where the 
   scar-trees are; that there is more than one good reason to burn 
   patterns on a message stick; and how to recognise the night call of 
   a mopoke. 
 
   Because his father was an ...