#117 Kevin Brophy 'Critical success'

We drove ….

for about fifty road-side cattle and two dozen beer cans

down the Tanamai track,  for four burned out car wrecks

along the road to Balgo Hills, and another two abandoned

water tanks to Mulan, running over sand as corrugated

as a volume of verse sprung by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

This we understand means we’re now critically initiated

and officially well shaken down in our bones and brains.