Wednesday, June 25, 2014




La Cucaracha


No one stirred, not
even the waiter serving lunch.
not even two tourists
under an umbrella, or
the bronze statue in the square.

The girls under the
trees, intent on listening.
didn't speak or see
the little black bug.
Even a dog lifted his leg.

The woman in the
cowboy shirt, smoking, didn't
look, nor two policemen
with their shirt tails out
pounding the cobbled streets.

Bent, fussy pigeons
circled around. No one screamed
or squirmed. All missed cockroach,
head down, black wings glistening,
cleaning crumbs from stone.







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Helen Hagemann holds an MA in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has three poetry books: Evangelyne & Other Poems published by Australian Poetry, Melbourne (2009) and of Arc & Shadow published by Sunline Press, Perth (2013). Bounty: prose poetry is published by Oz.one Publishing in 2024. She has three novels published The Last Asbestos Town (2020), The Ozone Café (2021) and The Five Lives of Ms Bennett a result of her Masters degree at ECU (2006), is published by Oz.one Publishing (2023).

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