Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Sea cucumbers off the Darwin Coast

Like a wave of suddenly identified metanarrative 
I am reeling: 
bobbing my overboard to participate 
in the occasional cheeky spew. 
Is this excitement? 
Or nerves? 

Is this the new South Wales 
that the captain explored and declared barren? 

Or the undiscovered Darwin coast 
holding lovely trade of sea cucumbers, 
broken discussions and haggling 
over wares deemed a natural commodity? 

How will we live?

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