Australian Poetry
Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry edited by Noel Rowe and Vivian Smith
by David McCooey •
You set down orange, with a dab of blue
and this grows into art
of a non-offender’s kind,
innocent as a fart in the footy crowd.
Meanwhile, the killing stumbles on
The Collected Verse Of Mary Gilmore: Volume 1 1887–1929 edited by Jennifer Strauss
by Vivian Smith •
Being from a young nation you find that dawn beguiles you
onto the exhausted saltmarsh,
miles of morose vacuity clad
in couch grass, cottonweed, random puddles, wire
and the odd, triumphant
flourish of pampas grass
featherily trying to tell dead factories,
Look here,
something fans, even at the far edge of Europe
where large gulls crowd and abruptly dip, although
the fish have all gone home to bed.
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