Like a work just started
and left unfinished
In the wake of a cataclysm
Australia waits
Keep the palette
Until the painter arrives
Who painted
Australia
Keep the pigments, the marrow
Bound up by bone
In cavities undiscovered
In Australia
Keep the handles of palette knives
From being eroded, rusted
By the tourists and travellers
Swarming across Australia
Sing to your children
Of Dreamtime, dreamland
Where the creator once lived
In Australia
Sing to your children
Of a time to come
When work will be done
Completed, in Australia
26 April
