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Absolutely Revolting
Poem

The Metal Detectors

‘The Metal Detectors’ by Jaya Savige

by Jaya Savige •
December 2003–January 2004, no. 257

He sang of old coins buried beneath the dunes,
to the north of the island, near the old artillery battery.
For forty years he rowed for mullet north, and south,
where the war epic motion picture was shot recently.

 


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