I like the ending, Bill, & the lead-up to it. But feel that you could cut some not-doing-anything words, like the 'that' in l 4, or perhaps the whole 'that it was' or the 'It was' later on; things like that. And 'Nay'? Do you, or does anyone, say or even think that, except as highly ironic comment?
Doug
On 2012-08-14, at 4:12 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> 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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