Mark Roberts #3 Slide 2 Orange NSW circa 1965

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I am sitting on the back steps

..........of the farmhouse

....................holding a baby's bottle

out to small joey

.........my arm is at full stretch

..................& he joey is pushing against the bottle

trying to get as close to me

.........as possible without letting go

..................of the bottle

my father had gone hunting

.........with Tom & the others

..................the night before

to clean the roos

.........out of the mountain paddocks

..................before the seed went in

I was told we would have

.........kangaroo tail soup

..................for dinner & couldn't

imagine how kangaroos

.........could hop

..................without their tails

they came back

.........with a joey

..................found in his dead mother's pouch