Morgan Michaels Poems

Your body has outlived great lovliness-
fallen cities, scarred battle fields
tell of tumultuous yieldings, wasted pride
altars where men in ritual died.
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The huge roots of the Daintree tree are known as:

1) fortress roots
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What kind of creature is the spectacled flying fox?

1) a bat
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Which disease decimated the native Aboriginal population?

1) cowpox
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A secret burns in my brain
like a glowing coal.
Yes, the secret lodged behind my eyes
sputters and mutters like a burning coal
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And this secret is a humdinger.
This secret is an anaconda. It is the Great American Secret.
All other secrets beside it would seem trifles-
would be shamed back into their coops;
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Secrets of state, said my codex,
classic examples of which would be the Ems letter
and (doubtless) Irangate,
may without blame be unbosomed
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Second: secrets of (and this is hard to translate)
secrets of estate-water-fountain secrets-for lack of a better term
secrets which pertain to people in the flow of it all
unaffected by the course of desire
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But the third kind of secret
is the heart secret.
Secrets, these, of things that transpire in the dark
between two or more persons.
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Of this type, the secret thst currently burns in my brain-
ah, drat,
which I shall guard fast,
telling not even Jane,
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