See Hannah Barry's article on this latest abuse of nature by government and developers in Perth, Western Australia. And my poem in response to this catastrophe:
Deathwish Imposed on Kiara Bushland
Landcorp
and the developers
win always
in their deathwish
endgame
collusion — the killing
off, the
erasing to say, This is how
it always was — old growth
just photoshopped into a history
you never had — we give you what
is: dead space to grow our buildings,
‘providing’ you places to live
where orchids and skinks,
singing and calling birds
are written off, out of the image.
Remorseless.
Who do they make us?
These
self-appointed speakers
for the
land that was never theirs?
Housing the
spirits of killed flora
and fauna
as people will wonder
what it is
that’s not quite right
with the
air the pollen record
cemented
over? Bottlebrush Drive.
John Kinsella
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