by Graham Oakes, © 1988.

Poetry in Australia, Volume 111/112. Five Dock, NSW: South Head Press. 1988. ISSN 0032-2059.

'Dig'
the graffiti of survival

life can be measured in hours
failure in miles
even in the million-mile continent
the thousand million year continent

I remember Burke and Wills and the tree
its roots reaching deep

.......(Extract)