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Giant Galapagos Tortoise
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"He who put his hands around my plate-size",
2004
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 63 no. 1 2004; (p. 234) The Best Australian Poetry 2005 2005; (p. 10) -
Paradise Parrot
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"It was a scud that killed us: a Rockhampton Rocket",
2004
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 63 no. 1 2004; (p. 234) The Best Australian Poetry 2005 2005; (p. 10-11) -
Falkland Islands Wolf : Dusicyon Australis
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"How we got here nobody knows; Holocene men",
2008
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 67 no. 2 2008; (p. 15) The Best Australian Poems 2008 2008; (p. 28) -
Dodo : Raphus Cucullatus
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"Okay, so we're famous for all the wrong reasons,",
2008
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 17 (New Series) 2008; (p. 7) -
Great Auk : Pinguinus Impennis
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"You slept on us mostly - Vikings invented the mattress",
2008
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 17 (New Series) 2008; (p. 8) -
Passenger Pigeon : Ectopistes Migratorius
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"We spent a whole day winging by your window",
2008
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 17 (New Series) 2008; (p. 9) -
Giant Moa : Dinornis novaezealandiae
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"Hardly surprising from a country that led the world",
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blackmail Press , February no. 32 2012; -
Haast's Eagle : Harpagornis moorei
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"The land of the long white cloud was ruled by birds.",
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blackmail Press , February no. 32 2012; -
Stellar's Sea Cow
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"A throwback mermaid we must have appeared",
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blackmail Press , February no. 32 2012; -
Stephen's Island Wren
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"Had two things going against us, small & flightless",
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blackmail Press , February no. 32 2012; -
Tasmanian Tiger : Thylacinus Cynocephalus
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"Outlawed, we were exterminated by far",
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Blackmail Press , February no. 32 2012; -
Christmas Island Rat : Rattus macleari
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"We were worried about what you would bring",
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , November no. 12 2012; -
Elephant Bird : Aepyornis maximus
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"We came from the largest single cells ever to be thought",
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , November no. 12 2012; -
Huia : Heteralocha acutirostris
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"Perhaps out of all of us you are the greatest of mimics.",
2008
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 191 2008; (p. 76)
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