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Sounds
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143 Sounds Low amplitude high frequency Rumbling crackle Throughout the undergrowth Trees are not ablaze Air is smokeless Wherefore the sound of forest fire Thickly among the pines Black cockatoos Feasting busily on acorns Play a pizzicato of burning Nests Pulsating white bodies Pumping up and down Like so many hearts Each white thing Sequestered in its Hexagonal chamber They pump away collectively Cut to the quick By Baygon Some fall off Others just die Another wasp nest For the collection ...