Whistling through the hanging swamp
the west wind whips
bunches of silver leaves
like grass skirts
on slender native girls
into a dervish dance.
I sit among the banksias,
roots and trunks knobbly-gnarled,
bonsaid by time.
Crusty ancestors, unburied,
lie at their feet,
driftwood of the west wind.
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