Article: Paperbarks.(Poem)

 
PAPERBARKS 
 
   Such comfortable trees, those old melaleucas. 
   They look at themselves on the shores of lakes, 
   or get their feet wet in treacle-brown creeks. 
 
   You see them too in suburban avenues. 
   With their generous wrappings of loose bark 
   they make me think of ancient relatives 
 
   in shabby dressing gowns, shuffling 
   to bed with ...

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