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'Scatomancer' by James Charlton | States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two

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States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two

'Scatomancer' by James Charlton | States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two

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States of Poetry Tasmania - Series Two

One who performs divination by dissecting faeces

We poke apart devil scats.
Clotted fur, bone fragments, gristle,
possible scraps of crushed mollusc.

Devils lope across roads less and less.
That which people called a growl
was possibly vernacular for ‘How?’

James Charlton

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