Friday 4 July 2014

THE ANTEATER - by Peter Gebhardt


-beautiful poem-portrait of the Australian Echidna -

THE ANTEATER

- by Peter Gebhardt, Geelong, VIC


Suddenly the soft soil erupts
A nib pushed through
And then a thousands quills
Poised to leave their marks.

It is the nib which fills itself
With the scuttling ants;
The quills that make their points
With the inquisitive invader.

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