A flatbed truck pulls away
With dust-swarmed wheels
No one moves
The funereal pall
Is spared interruption
Till it dissolves
But then
At the instant of ascension
And woven into sclerophyll
A flashing thread of cockatoos
Sounds a silent mustering of
Stoops and half-nods
People begin to move
Lighted by this day
Into another
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