I promised (threatened?) in my post celebrating last year’s Wombat Day, to post my wombat poem here this year if it hadn’t been accepted for publication by now. So here, in all its earthiness, I present to you:

Wombat Scat

The wombat is a curious species.
Of all the creatures known on earth
wombats alone drop cube-shaped faeces.

The benefit of cubic pieces?
Small solid cairns to mark home turf.
The wombat is a curious species.

The inner working that produces
cubes of poo is subject to research.
Wombats alone drop cube-shaped faeces.

So when a wombat sadly ceases,
struck by a truck, its gut is worth
a look; for it’s such a curious species.

Pumped full of air, the gut increases
our understanding of how on earth
wombats extrude cubical faeces.

Now stiff, now soft, their gut squeezes
chewed matter into blocks of dirt.
The wombat is a curious species,
not least because of cube-shaped faeces.