by Erin Corday (with Joel Litwin)

© 2010

On the 16th of December
1860, Sunday
The two horses having been shod
Our reports finished, we started

We found the creek bed
Bring the cup
Three days to water
Drink up

Across cracked clay and stone
To the depot and the dig tree
The cockatoos, pigeons and crows
Starvation in the land of plenty

Across Australia
Burke, Wills & King
From the Never Never
To Cooper Creek

On the Bullah, Bullah
The red gumblegari
Look again, look again
I cannot, I cannot