1.
a tuft of sustenance, adrip with meat

and wool, pads the clay



2.
a hungry metaphor born, it breaches

somewhere out from Botany Bay



3.
smeared on a frontier ill-defined

beneath it bleats its grass-fed mine



4.
there is nothing less ill-

defined here. still them nullius men

carry that hard frontier, guard
these rhythmless feet



5.

a trespassing sheep.