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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signage<br />
Sandra Renew<br />
to you, in all our uncharted newness<br />
my lesbian body is freshly inked country,<br />
a tattooed archaeology.<br />
you ask me what happened here?<br />
Queer Queensland happened, gay hate crimes<br />
I am somebody, a body with history.<br />
broken ribs, hips replaced, sun-blemished skin,<br />
scars and marks etch topography,<br />
lay down in palimpsest on skin and bone<br />
vein and nail, a map, an artistry of landscape<br />
my life on record—discovery,<br />
sites and artefacts, evidence in sediment of a time<br />
before us.<br />
a body is signage I say, to help you find<br />
a way through the terrain<br />
to the middle of somewhere<br />
to the heart of us<br />
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