Rex Ingamells

Here you will find the Poem Shifting Camp of poet Rex Ingamells

Shifting Camp

Glint of gumtrees in the dawn, 
so million coloured: bush wind-borne 
magpie-music, rising, falling; 
and voices of the stockmen calling. 

Bellowing of cattle: stamping, 
impatient of the place of camping: 
bark of dogs, and the crack-crack-crack 
of stockwhips as we take the track. 

Neighing of night-rested mounts? 
This is a day that really counts: 
a day to ride with a hundred head, 
and a roll of canvas ? that's my bed.