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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Country of Mind, Country of Love<br />
Janette Dadd<br />
I<br />
In the country of mind currawongs play seed pod maracas<br />
their power beaks of divination freeing seeds of truth.<br />
Faithful apostle birds gather and divide<br />
always the number true, but country changing<br />
so patterns, contours, gradations of experience wear away old<br />
tropes<br />
and new seeds of enlightenment are tended,<br />
held in the quiet centering of being.<br />
II<br />
In the country of love green birds explore the winter garden<br />
dappled light revealing tonal sheen. Sisters together,<br />
no male seen, content in harvesting, investing in futures.<br />
Spring’s epicormic flush sees a bower constructed and bright<br />
eyes tempted<br />
by refracted light of gathered blue, a gambit for one who entered<br />
intrigued<br />
while the others flew, not bound to nest and eggs,<br />
choosing solitary journeys to pursue.<br />
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