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Cronulla Beach
Cronulla Beach
Cronulla Beach
-early morning news, 12 December 2005
1 Blood surges rapidly
2 along Cronulla Beach.
3 Armed with bats,
4 white bodies are mad
5 replications of tents,
6 parasols and sunblinds
7 spreading all over
8 what used to be kurranulla,
10 the place of pink seashells.
11 There is no chieftain
12 on the shore, no starfish
13 where dominion shatters.
14 Not too far behind,
15 thugs and their hand
16 maids constrict exquisite
17 shades of perplexity
18 to keep generations
19 pure and sterile.
20 Space beneath vestiges
21 of hamlets from long ago
22 have become driftwood,
23 shells, cleavers of melting
24 pots and succession.
25 They are swaying eerily
26 translucent as postcards
27 bereft of scintillating light
28 in the heated - up weather.
29 So racializing this soap.