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Absolutely Revolting
Poem

Journey Beginning Things

from Nganajungu Yagu (Cordite Publishing, 2019)
by •
October 2025, no. 480
Poem

Journey Beginning Things

from Nganajungu Yagu (Cordite Publishing, 2019)
by •
October 2025, no. 480

Suitcase red girl teenager together
New space time moving thataway
Farewell waving family people mindset

Suitcase red a symbol of hopes
dreams and small-town big escape

Suitcase red carried years down
Reminder grounded family value
Possessions little clothes few

Suitcase red a symbol of bravery
adventure and expanding mind

Biliyarra thaga
Warlugura
Gagurlimanha
Biliyarra thaga

The teenage girl
leaving on her own
with her red coolamon

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Charmaine Papertalk Green

Charmaine Papertalk Green was a poet, visual artist and social sciences researcher from the Yamaji Nation, Western Australia. She has been represented in many anthologies focusing on Aboriginal writers in Australia. Her books include Just Like That (Fremantle Arts Centre Press), Tiptoeing Tracker Tod (Oxford University Press), and Nganajungu Yagu (Cordite Books, 2019). 

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