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    Witness by Colleen Duncan

    (runner-up Escape ARTfest 2010, Milton-Ulladulla_

    I watch crows pick through garbage
    from Saturday night in a wind
    bitten with rain they squabble
    over cold chips and kebabs
    chiacking like schoolboys
    flapping wet wings ruffling feathers
    while one keenly fixes me a gaze
    of stone

    down Bulli Pass a dark lord skims
    the air beside my window then
    turns looks flies off
    a white golf ball snapped
    in its beak like a prize

    At Wollongong
    with a circling wind scouring
    my brain a bird balances
    his darkness and light
    on a wire and catches my eye as
    a train slides in and
    I make my escape

    As carriages rattle through Dapto
    a crow on a post watches my face
    and picks over my thoughts for
    something to remember me by
    then is caught by a wind
    that flaps it away to the east
    like a burnt scrap of paper

    Now all that I’m left is this face
    in the glass going home

    © Colleen Duncan

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