Read the poem below by Bruce Dawe then answer the questions.

Drifters

One day soon he’ll tell her it’s time to start

packing,

And the kids will yell “Truly?” and get wildly

excited for no reason,

And the brown kelpie pup will start dashing about,

tripping everyone up,

And she’ll go out to the vegetable patch and pick

all the green tomatoes from the vines,

And notice how the oldest girl is close to tears

because she was happy here,

And how the youngest girl is beaming because she

wasn’t.

And the first thing she’ll put on the trailer will be

The bottling set she never unpacked from

Grovedale,

And when the loaded ute¹ bumps down the drive

past the blackberry canes with their last

shrivelled fruit,

She won’t even ask why they’re leaving this time,

Or where they’re heading for

– she’ll only remember how, when they came

here,

she held out her hands bright with berries,

the first of the season, and said:

"Make a wish, Tom, make a wish."

¹ utility vehicle