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Sundown marks a gravel expanse, the warmth of ochre lines.
Kangaroos gather round, and like a painting of an old town, the open space is
their space. The backdrop is the old mill, almost down, an historic treasure
not known, a timber mill hailing a gold mine, soon to be ground, not preserved,
unkempt, not kept, renegated to its knees. Roaming emus grumble, try to please. Small
to junior joeys encircle, nudge close as if you’ve food. They’re in arms
reach, a trick they’ve learned from passing tourists. How many? Approximately eight
or ten. Further up, large does and bucks join the group, to form a troop. It’s
affectionate protection. Movement is slow, when food’s a no show. It’s a leg
up, back prised, the way forward is a soundless bound, an amble with no scramble
to other tufts of grass. It’s a country juxtaposition! This court of roos moves
freely among trees, towards fences, cross corrugated gutters, the gravel of an
old track. It’s a poetic trifle, a zoological trick. The old mill, a security
risk, is encased in razor wire.
Review of Flute of Milk by Susan Fealy
To be published in Plumwood Mountain Journal
Flute of Milk by Susan Fealy
Perth, WA: UWA Publishing, 2017.ISBN: 9781742589398
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Elvis Presley's Pink Caddy
50s
Cars
You saw them go by. Sometimes on the spare-tyre
back carrier – an immobile army of kids.
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Poem: The Gift
The
Gift
Bought from a nursery, a plant of yellow everlastings,
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Helen Hagemann holds an MA in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has three poetry books: Evangelyne & Other Poems published by Australian Poetry, Melbourne (2009) and of Arc & Shadow published by Sunline Press, Perth (2013). Bounty: prose poetry is published by Oz.one Publishing in 2024. She has three novels published The Last Asbestos Town (2020), The Ozone Café (2021) and The Five Lives of Ms Bennett a result of her Masters degree at ECU (2006), is published by Oz.one Publishing (2023).
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