Looking over its shoulder
was a common thing
without the extension
of wings.
Extinction was the order
of the night and day
when hunters
made hay
while stripes and lines
were on the grass
and the decline
of the last
of its kind. The rifle bird
reports and goes
out of its head
in the glow
of light from the past.
A dugite skeleton
is a circle of chalk
on Dorre Island.
Looking over its shoulder
was a common thing
without the extension
of wings.
Extinction was the order
of the night and day
when hunters
made hay
while stripes and lines
were on the grass
and the decline
of the last
of its kind. The rifle bird
reports and goes
out of its head
in the glow
of light from the past.
A dugite skeleton
is a circle of chalk
on Dorre Island.
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