I Love a Sunburnt Country

The wall calendar behind my office desk is currently displaying a poem by the Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig. Besides from being incredibly apt for my PhD project, it makes me smile whenever I look at it...

I LOVE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY

(by Leunig)

I love a sunburnt country

A land of sunburnt plains.

Of sunburnt mountain ranges

Of droughts and sunburnt rains.

I love sunburnt horizons

I love her sunburnt sea

Her sunburn and her sunburn

This sunburnt land for me.