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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Winter solstice<br />
Kai Jensen<br />
The calendar’s stuck<br />
on a picture of two crested grebes<br />
courting on a <strong>South</strong> Island lake<br />
June goes on forever<br />
sinking into darkness<br />
the cold deepening<br />
winter doonas, heavy quilts<br />
on the bed and possums<br />
shivering on the front deck<br />
longer by far than the year’s<br />
first five together<br />
this month lingers<br />
hangs about like wood smoke<br />
in the chill night air<br />
when the waves’ drum beats loud<br />
and in the dark of the moon<br />
just above our roof<br />
the galaxy wheels.<br />
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