34-37 Degrees South - 2023
This anthology from the South Coast Writers Centre presents fresh country poetry from emerging and award-winning local writers.
This anthology from the South Coast Writers Centre presents fresh country poetry from emerging and award-winning local writers.
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By the saltwater lake<br />
Alisha Brown<br />
I stripped like a stonefruit<br />
leaving<br />
only the hard seed<br />
not yet sweet or bitter<br />
ripe or rotten<br />
just a rough, round likeliness<br />
tea trees ached their creaky necks<br />
and, carefully<br />
I dodged the shoremouth spittle<br />
searching for a soft place to be born<br />
or to die<br />
or whatever grace occurs<br />
when things become<br />
my knees found the sand<br />
and it held me<br />
simply<br />
there was silence, and<br />
then sound<br />
blue echoes on the surface<br />
a small fish<br />
me, nameless<br />
and<br />
remaining<br />
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