A leading literary magazine of Great Britain, Stand has been publishing since 1953. My 10th poem to appear in this magazine since 2016 is in the just released 2025 issue. The poem concerns an imaginary bout between the poem’s speaker and a red kangaroo. In spite of the fact that humans kill about 1.5 million kangaroos a year, they do not seem to be an endangered species. If I were a betting man, I wouldn’t wager on Homo sapiens outlasting the king of the outback.