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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Red<br />
Joni Braham<br />
Red as a shearer’s careless nick<br />
on an unsuspecting sheep,<br />
Red as the wool press<br />
waiting for its fill,<br />
Red as the Kelpie<br />
taut and wired for action,<br />
Red as the roustabout’s blood dripping<br />
from a cloven hoof fight back,<br />
Red as the chalk cross<br />
across the next sheep to slaughter,<br />
Red as the dirt stirred through my nostrils.<br />
Red as the blood all over the country,<br />
all over unceded land.<br />
Red.<br />
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