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'Roo Tails' by Ellen van Neerven | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One

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States of Poetry Queensland - Series One

'Roo Tails' by Ellen van Neerven | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One

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States of Poetry Queensland - Series One

The ground felt like it did when it's about to storm. My feet were brown and my big toe blistered. My grandmother was talking to my grandfather. A wet patch on my grandmother's back. Her hands roping those tails along the fence.

She turned to me and I saw her. Grey. A little heavy. Everything I came here for. A magpie flew lower.

Ellen van Neerven

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