for Graham
Even the waves of the sea, in the distance, have turned to stone.The blue/green rising into outcrops, ridgelines, a lone bullfalling into half-solid ground. How the bull and the fallhover inside him. How the waves never quite dissolve –the sway of them, their shudder, leaching into the soil.
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Kristen Lang
Kristen Lang has published The Weight of Light (Five Islands Press, 2017), SkinNotes (Walleah Press, 2017), and Let me show you a ripple (self-published, 2008). She won the ACU Poetry Prize in 2015 and was shortlisted for the 2019 Dorothy Hewett Award. She earned a PhD at Deakin University in 2004 for a creative thesis in poetry. She works from her home in North-West Tasmania.