large scale fires … represent a significant and prolonged loss of key resources for nectarivorous birds, mammals and insects. (Clarke 2008: 9)
The eastern pygmy possum
dangles from the stalk-less
cylindrical
yellow
feast:
saw
ban
k
sia
fl
ow
er
s
s
s
Unmapped, the fire lit in ‘82
Burnt east of West Boundary
Tk along Providence Ponds
And a year later escaped
From an adjacent planned burn
To scorch again the same
Banksia which did not bear
To flower for 18 years