| WARRICK WYNNE
Where The
Circus Was
- The place where the circus was is clearly
visible
- even to non-experts.
- Here, the elephant rolled in the yellow
grass.
- Our local grass, wide-bladed, patchy,
- became something different around this
beast.
- Here the monkey was tethered beneath a
trailer,
- look, the scuff marks, the marks from the
heavy wheels,
- and there, the ground that was beneath
the big top
- is flattened in a huge round shape
- like those depressions farmers up north
- sometimes find in their wheat fields;
- the circus has left an impression.
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- Future archaeologists
- could divide this space into squares,
- make plans and diagrams, take
photographs.
- They could retrieve lost tent pegs,
- strange seeds from strange hay,
- how the grass grows stronger where the
animals were,
- how there are impressions left, trace the
monkey's movements;
- conclude; this is where the circus was.
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