Rock Lizard
Never move my tail though the sun bang down
Hard on this rock where my back turn brown
You lay your hand over my spine and nothing
Ever flicker even if we both still breathing
Swimming in my rock ten thousand year
If all time only a scratch on a wall
My little clawmarks, nothing at all.
Put you hand over mine, close eyes.
What size, you Sally? What size, you Jock?
A spear through your heart, and your name in chalk
Turn your eye up to the flame
That burn all time in the ghost-gum tree, and swim
Slow, slow, swim with me into my rock
Into my dream.