Adelaide poet Geoff Goodfellow has contributed his impressions of the chain saws of autumn in Adelaide.

It’s mid-May in Adelaide

& my apricot tree is beginning

to shed its leaves

while in the Adelaide Hills

autumn leaves glow with colour

& in the North Adelaide parklands

possums scurry & birds flee in fright

as the roar of heavy machinery

& chainsaws echo & reverberate

while trees fall . . .

in the wake of Mali’s ratings.

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