Somewhere in the outback

In the shadow 

of the Uluru*

or somewhere in the

desolate outback

among the waterholes,

the rock engravings

in the Dreamtime**

lie buried

a child's clapping sticks

and the echoes of

their careless gammon

till the gubba man***

arrived

and stole generations 

the abandoned fish hooks

and the broken boomerang

long for the 

Rainbow Serpent

now long gone 

the coroborees#

seeking the old spirits

in the sand and the snow

the desert red with love

not blood

where all stories begin !

* The Ayers Rock

** The Dreamtime (or Dreaming) is a term used to describe the period before living memory when Spirits emerged from beneath the earth and from the sky to create the land forms and all living things.

*** government