We are wild and raw for it Here, in a blazing land, Sand-burning beaches, The low colossal sky, The slow fading of our evenings into night.
Night, when the lapwing calls the world home again And out of the bay the white gulls fall Into the ocean, the sea's crawling surge, Northwards, by currents temperate And tropical, The long winding range That loses its footing in the coastal flats, In the desert's vast and undulating stride We are wild and raw for it.
With a sky so blue that you could fall forever And falling, never fall so far as into its red heart, Its pumping core, and the majesty Of bodies skin-tight, raw and moving In this distant nether-world. Where the real world ends, our hearts Plunge fountain-flow into the dance of dreams, We hold the dancer close, we spin, Star-tipped and wild beyond the clasp and call, Beyond the river's bend, Beyond the treeless hill, We are wild and raw for it.