snap like. videoclip like
maybe delete 'when I'
Unfolds nicely to the final image.
I expect Patrick of RP to recoil and offer a further line:
eg
poked its rictus in self-defence and ran off.
M of RLPark
On 15/08/2012, at 8:12 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
> A sign - Epilogue
>
> When I walked down to inspect the sign the following morning,
> sun sparkled from its plaque and I could see,
> as I neared,
> that it was a brand new steel pole,
> inserted exactly in the old crater
> and neatly pounded in.
> Nay, it had been seamlessly, signlessly, installed.
>
> It was as though it had never been away.
>
> Of my righting branch,
> there was no sign.
>
> But wait...
> there, at the foot of the pole,
> a white glint.
> A bit of the broken branch?
> No, the white object looked bigger...
> and smaller.
>
> I waited for a car to pass, then crossed the road.
> On my haunches, I gazed
> at the intact rictus of a kangaroo skull.
>
> Bill Woottton
> 15 August, 2012
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