when I look you over as if I'm there 
unmitigated in careless ambient glare
I conjure breath with outback care 
preventing burn as nostrils flare
while gum leaf perfume scorches where 
in overshadowing majestic air
you lay this stripling bare

copyright 2003 bob tatnell
australia's most pretend poet
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