.
Tentative, hanging back
hesitant
hesitant
to speak -- in a world
endlessly fraught
endlessly fraught
with administrative
penalties
penalties
for those tempted
to utter
so much as one
independent word
in the face of
the expanding
independent word
in the face of
the expanding
control
mechanisms,
tending
stitched up,
at what might
or might not
be waiting out
there.
tending
to one's knitting
in public
makes one sheepish,
stitched up,
stuck in, half afraid
to risk a peek
at what might
or might not
be waiting out
there.
He only wanted to eat some grass. (This young wombat was hit by a car.): photo by Karena Goldfinch, 7 October 2012
Sheepish[hand coloured photogravure version]: photo by Karena Goldfinch, 21 March 2013