02-21-2026, 04:50 PM
Australia Day
I see from my roomÂ
a purple jacaranda tree
in bloom, on a beach
in the coral sea.
Elsewhere, older fig trees grow,
where land retains the memory
of long ago and different names
for the native forest flames.
Or so I imagine it to be.
I see from my roomÂ
a purple jacaranda tree
in bloom, on a beach
in the coral sea.
Elsewhere, older fig trees grow,
where land retains the memory
of long ago and different names
for the native forest flames.
Or so I imagine it to be.