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A Tawny Frogmouth Calls single work   poetry   "all night the mopoke asks"
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 A Tawny Frogmouth Calls
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Notes

  • Author's note:

    About the poem:

    I lived in a house that floated on a hill of forest, where frogmouths called all night, and screeched catching the hunted in the night. A beautiful call, and a cold killer, which disappeared into the day, at repose like a lost ornament.  They would drift in the background, ever present, aloof, enigmatic, yet commonplace. I tried to capture that.

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