back into dumgan

biren

(salt water)

Blue Red

white green

clouds blow

across stingrays

gliding sharks

gliding slithering

dancing 

we spot

whale as octopuses

wriggle towards 

Islands where cold

icey fish shiver 

in antarctic waters

a creeks, around icebergs

melting rivers

melting oceans

melting creeks

melting waterholes

back into the ocean

ngurun, red 

white, green

clouds blow

ngaring stingrays

gliding, slithering

ngahri-lehla

we spot

warajama

octopus wriggle 

toward islands

cold icy fish

shiver 

in antarctic guhng

and creeks

around icebergs 

melting rivers

melting dumgan

melting creeks

melting waterholes 

back into

          dumgan. 

_{To honour the integrity of First Nations voices, poems have been reproduced as close as possible to their original text, with light editing for clarity.}