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These poems are available in print in John Tranter's Selected Poems, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1982, ISBN 0 86806 029 1, paperback.   |
The plane drones low over Idaho, a thundering shadow on the wheat. The captain is thinking of a dust-cloud disappearing out to sea. The heavy wings tilt, a silo looms like a hill. The cloud falters on the horizon of his mind. Taped to the cockpit wall is a photograph a piece of Sunday afternoon, a lawn, a bright dress, flowers. Soon they will be flying over the mountains in a halo of ice. The cloud hangs about, behind the imaginary trees. |
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