Ghosts with lightning eyes, peeled
Aboriginal corpses

Gather insects through imported gloaming
Catechised in Auld Kirk Gaelic.

After Culloden this land was possessed,
Settled in a trance of cash.

Mraat, ghosts with interrogating eyes,
Go walkabout in Caledonia Australis.

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