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States of Poetry 2016 - Western Australia | ‘Reading the Landscape’ by J.P. Quinton

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States of Poetry Western Australia - Series One

States of Poetry 2016 - Western Australia | ‘Reading the Landscape’ by J.P. Quinton

by
States of Poetry Western Australia - Series One

To read a landscape by another landscape;
Valley cloud reveals altitude.

To read the landscape visits the ego
That prevents a proper reading.

To this landscape, the circular fireplace
And a straight trunk – xanthorrhoeas present.

To read this landscape to the tune of other words,
As moisture moves us, is us, drowns us.

To read the landscape like a book
Means to think like a border

Like the roos who still jump
Where the fences have been removed.

 

J.P. Quinton


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