When clear October suns unfold 
mallee tips of red and gold 

children on their way to school 
discover tadpoles in a pool, 

iceplants sheathed in beaded glass 
spider orchids and shivery grass, 

webs with globes of dew alight 
budgerigars on their first flight, 

tottery lambs and a stilty foal 
a papers slough that a snake shed whole, 

and a bronzewing's nest of twigs so few 
that both the sky and the eggs show through.