This appeared on Australian Children’s Poetry blog today, and is also up at the Queensland Art Gallery.
Image: William Delafield Cook A haystack 1982, Courtesy of the Queensland Art Gallery
Look! Rats and the children run out from
their hiding places in the haystack to
dance in front of us in a merry line?
Who else do you think hides here?
Do you have a memory of haystacks or
artist’s haystacks?
(Perceval’s Angel)
Tumble down the Haystack
dreaming columns of Greece.
Tumble down the Haystack
with childhood farming friends.
Tumble down the Haystack
to horses and the cows.
Now,
climb up that artist’s Haystack
and tumble down again.
June Perkins (Brisbane-based poet and children’s author)
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