34-37 Degrees South: Easy reading version

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If… Myfanwy Hudson If you stay too long in the sea The mermaids will take you, her cousin said, A bored babysitter, fourteen. Reluctantly, she exited, four and in love With wave width, Sand texture in love with all that reliably rose and fell If you walk on the cliff rocks alone The men will take you, her mother said. Instead, she brought a kitchen knife and clambered along capricious cliffs Seventeen, in love with all that was Predictably harsh, in love with a A cadence of crest and crash. If you bring a towel, we’ll be more comfortable, the boy said. Twenty-one and agreeable, she lay in the Scarborough alcove hidden but exposed. Twenty-one and watching beyond him Wanting the salt on her skin Her body submerged As the shallows consumed her. If she leaves now, she thinks She will arrive before the families, Thirty-nine and sensible she arrives at dawn Seeking solace, she wades into the North Beach rock pools A hermit crab peers from its jagged crevice, Watching, not judging As she floats on her back As the rising sky blinds her and the ocean becomes her. 28
the link Lajos Hamers that sweet mauve dusk the ocean ‘like a lake’ tranquillity floating tiny splashes awake attention school of poddy mullet flitter by tickled, then torpedoing after them a penguin I am a floating reverie of nature then, revelation of an ascending food chain hurries me out of the water 29
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Page 14 and 15: Pelican Ed Southorn Caribou DHC-4 i
Page 16 and 17: At Bass Point Norm Fairbairn At Bas
Page 18 and 19: The Princes Highway Melanie Weckert
Page 20 and 21: A place for coming back to Stephen
Page 23 and 24: 2. HYPER-LOCAL Image of a rockpool
Page 25 and 26: Sunset creek Kai Jensen for Chloe S
Page 27 and 28: Letting Go Linda Mcquarrie-Bowerman
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Page 31 and 32: At the Bridge Ed Southorn We slow d
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Page 42 and 43: Black Holes in Green Hills Dorothy
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