Poems
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Hades
By Rebecca MoranWhen the river burst its banks
I was busy at work.
I had meetings. Plans. I wasn’t ready.
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There are Rivers Underneath the Sea
By Dženana VucicEverything begins like this: with a shipwreck;
one body rent against another,
salt and silt,
waves lapping at the crest of another world. -
Whale Wattle Sonata 1 For Two Violins
By Eric AveryOn the intersection of Poetry, dance and music
When I was young I remember being taken by my mother to the South Coast and seeing the ocean and playing my violin and how it spoke to each other - the notes and just hearing.
I didn’t know that world but I must have heard it - so it was there in the Country. -
Tetrahedral
By David Ishaya Osu
easily a veil on your way not different from your faith in sugar
the strangest baluster / made our morning
double amber placed beside calke green mugs enough to match family portraits in december -
sun glint drift
By Anne Elveya name for what speaks this day to
water
as creek replies
mirror -
Nyarlu Malga (Strong Woman)
By Charmaine Papertalk GreenABA a women’s daily dance for good BARNDIMANMANHA
JUGARNU Spirits move within the memory ground NHANGANHA
JURDU Country bush broom stirs dust and land WINDI-WINDIN
NYARLU Universe sweeping with grandmothers hand JUNDANMANHA -
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Birrarung Billabong
By Tony BirchSitting with your open coffin thinking and not thinking I want to be with the world and you. I knock against the grain of wood and want to know if you remember the day we took the bikes to the river and rode along the bank against a current willing us home to safety. At the billabong we circled sacred water, threw away our shoes and socks and spla… -
How Water Works
By Tony Birchcup a hand
skin and bone
this water well
a beating heart -
a water suite
By Evelyn Araluen, Anahera Gildeaocean/saltwater/waitī/mulli tahnee
where i’m from the sand is cold at night, the shells empty, grey
cloud scudding like -
Muru Nanga Mai (Dreaming Track)
By Lorna MunroBulima Spirit Land D'harawal interpretations by Shannon Foster
Bulima Spirit Land D'harawal interpretations by Shannon Foster
muru nanga mai -
Looking for Arabanoo
By Jeanine LeaneMidway between the Spit Bridge and Manly
on a sandstone overhang jutting like a rock shelf
in the heights of Balgowlah, two benches
look out between North and South Head across