The Earth Remembers: A Hundred and Eleven Line Poem by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
With the rain, we shall return to life again, the last tree standing in the forest said, before falling into the bushfire. The animals fled their homes. A mother koala, scorched, went looking for her baby, limping on the charred ground. The birds abandoned their nests and flew to fetch clouds from far skies. No one really knows how many birds and animals died, how many trees fell, offering their last sermons, but the earth. The earth remembers everything…
