Keitha Keyes

Oblivion

emus by day
kangaroos at night
targets
of our shooting fun
in my teenage years

Farm life in Australia in the 1960s. No TV. When we looked for entertainment there was an abundance of wildlife around us, waiting to be killed.

“Aim for their legs. Their feathers are like armour,” my cousin would shout.

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About the Author

Keitha Keyes lives in Sydney, surrounded by antique irons and ship models. She enjoys writing tanka, haiku, senryu, cherita, and related genres. Her work is published in many journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas.