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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“Everyone knows I cry” (response to Meaghan)<br />
Linda Albertson<br />
Let your tears flow.<br />
Let their moisture<br />
revive<br />
the colours<br />
of the spirits<br />
who stir up<br />
your courage.<br />
Your tears mark the path<br />
revealed to you by your ancestors,<br />
who step out with you into<br />
twisting waterways<br />
through Country.<br />
Let each tear<br />
drip<br />
into the cracks of my heart<br />
split<br />
by ignorance<br />
and guilt<br />
and sorrow.<br />
Your heart lets me see you in the waters,<br />
your grace allows me into the waters with you,<br />
to stumble<br />
in your slipstream<br />
as you let the healing flow.<br />
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