Peter Porter Poetry Prize
ABR Poetry Prize Shortlist 2009
Yellow Jacket
Vespula maculifrons
The washing line
hangs across the backyard,
slung from makeshift post
to post;
our clothes brush
lazily
against the
yarrow, their toes in the
goldenrod;
they sway in the warm breeze,
soaked as they are
in sunshine,
while I unpeg and fold
dreamily,
into the basket.
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