thin red line
may refer to infantry or forces stretched thin against a greater force.
dawn, stockade hill
25 April 2023
anzac dawn
tui clucks
clicks piping
in the ruddied
line to a glow
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Click on the link above to hear a reading of the haiku read to the background of The Last Post performed by Corporal Matthew Creek of the Australian Royal Military College Band at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 2012.
Ruru ki Te Ruru 