Salty water | New Australian poetry, contemporary Australian writers & poetry education | Red Room Poetry

Pop, bubbles, water, ocean,

Salty water

I like to swim

Surf, I see turtles

I see stingrays

I like birds

I like whales

A digitised children's illustration of a whale with bubbles popping from its blowhole. — This illustration was hand-drawn by a First Nations student and manually digitised by Red Room Poetry staff. 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.