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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After the funeral<br />
Linda Albertson<br />
(On viewing Light in the Valley, Lawrence River 2019 by Caroline<br />
Bellamy at Oamaru Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand.)<br />
A special blue<br />
streams over greywacke boulders and rocks,<br />
more than one tone<br />
catches the light beyond mountainous slopes.<br />
A bank of sand<br />
intersects the landscape and pulls the water<br />
towards the dip<br />
where white sheaths angle across distant outcrops.<br />
Under the un-shadowed sky<br />
I wade in the winter water towards a vastness,<br />
my eyes magnetised<br />
by the bleu céleste above an almost invisible<br />
halo where the hard rocks<br />
bruise, where my grief will melt.<br />
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