Made Way
Jayne Bauling
Made way a thousand greens
sharp in spring, then mellow,
that dressed the hills, lopped
chopped, a brutal felling,
ancient roots wrenched from soil
by machines that screamed –
made way for stripped brown slopes
spiked with a thousand-thousand
macadamia saplings.
Made way bushbuck and duikers,
all shades and many sizes
of mongoose, and vervet monkeys fled
before the push to prosper;
made way a steep bank
where bee-eaters nested,
made way forest buzzards and fish eagles
bereft of tall trees, their absent calls
a gaping silence.
Made way.
JAYNE BAULING is best known for her YA novels which have won several awards, with two being DBE-approved school set-works. She also writes short stories and poetry, and contributes stories to FunDza Literacy Trust. Her latest YA novel Smoke Across the Sun was published in June 2021. Find her on Twitter @JayneBauling and Facebook as Jayne Bauling Writer https://www.facebook.com/Jayne-Bauling-Writer-165514616870712/
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