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Sam Waldron
Sam is a writer living in Melbourne, Australia. His poetry has been published locally and abroad, and his debut collection, The Book of Ours, will be released in December 2025.
In Plain Sight
Two tawny frogmouths
settle southward and nap
in naked nests:
mustard and mellow leaves
swoop around their stillness.
In-between unloading ute trays
I gaze
up to daytime browns, greys;
their hidden eyes disguise
their eagerness for looting.
The haunted mice
later that night
sleep under the oom-oom
of their monotone
midnight mass.
They would never have guessed
their southern guests
would mangle them in the morning.
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