Eastern brown snake
By Lisa Brockwell
Published 2 November 2023
Always here
and seldom seen.
The long tail of you
curves along
Ewingsdale Road
as I wait in traffic
to take
my son to school.
Staff from the hotel,
nurses from the hospital,
sitting in their cars,
handbags, breakfast
bananas, sunglasses.
A slow moving
procession
along the hot, black
tarmac,
radiating
the heat you seek.
I would like to acknowledge the Arakwal people of the Bundjalung Nation who are the traditional custodians of the land where the Byron Writers Festival is held.
New Shoots cultivates and celebrates poems inspired by plants. As part of our Poetic Moments project, in partnership with Byron Writers Festival and Elements Resort, in 2017 we commissioned local poet Lisa Brockwell to create a new series of poems that respond to the Byron Shire environment. Lisa's poems featured on seeded paper, scattered throughout Elements Resort.