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Absolutely Revolting
Peter Porter Poetry Prize

ABR Poetry Prize Shortlist 2009

ABR Poetry Prize Shortlist 2009

by Australian Book Review •
March 2009, no. 309

Yellow Jacket
Vespula maculifrons

The washing line
hangs across the backyard,
slung from makeshift post
to post;
our clothes brush
lazily
against the
yarrow, their toes in the
goldenrod;
they sway in the warm breeze,
soaked as they are
in sunshine,
while I unpeg and fold
dreamily,
into the basket.

 


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