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Sonnet For Climate Change
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s Day? Or to Fires that burn Forests and nests of Birds To ash upon stolen Earth? Charred seeds have always burst forth; New Plant people who refuse to go quietly, Thriving on heat of opposition to grow, Grow, grow towards sun and sky, Tickling Clouds with thirsty, beckoning…
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Black Snake Weeping, Kookaburra Healing (Fire In My Earth)
*Red-bellied Black Snake photos from iHerp Australia; Kookaburra photos by S.Judge Kookaburra in the branches, Black Snake under the house, teaching what it means to have too much fire in my earth. Power is the strength of roots to hold a mighty tree steady in the ground; The heavy patience of stone bodies shaped slowly,…
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The Mother Whales
*For my great grandmothers, Kyanga and Jane, and the sands upon Whom they walked. Photos by Sara and Country. Who are you, Grandmother Girl? Where do your footprints Press like a child’s kisses Into the salty sand of Country? Where do they lead Into the rhythmic waves Who dance passionately With the moon and wind?…
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Celebrating Change, Actioning Gratitude, Collaborating Life…
*WORKING IN THE SPIRIT OF COLLAGE WITH AMAZING ARTIST LOUISE UPSHALL TO CREATE WORKS USING THE PLANNING NOTES COLLABORATIVELY WRITTEN EACH WEEK BY GARETH THOMAS, SARAH DANIEL, AND I. USING A PROCESS OF RANDOM WORD AND PHRASE SELECTION, I HAVE CONSTRUCTED THIS POEM FROM THE WEEK ONE PLANNING NOTES CO-CREATED WITH GARETH THOMAS AND SARAH DANIEL FOR OUR ‘LISTENING TO…
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Dissolving Agencies
*This poem is written in response to the recent announcement that the newly elected state Liberal government will be steadily dissolving the Office of Environment & Heritage in favour of their rigorous development schemes. We stand on the precipice of ecological annhilation, a reality that is not the abstract delusion we insist on hearing as…