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A River’s Warning To Conservation Patriarchy: Not The Hot Chick.
*Images of Warragamba Dam (featured) just upstream from Western Sydney, and the upstream ‘wild rivers’ of the Burragorang Valley. One river, different values. Let me tell you, human, an extraordinary lie: You speak of me as a wild river Over and over and over again, As though the repeating will somehow make it true. Wild river…
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Furball Philosophies
*About listening from the animal body, and decolonising the way we impose human perception and exceptionalism in ways that lessen the autonomy of Earth Kin. This is more than just a poem about cats and birds, it also touches on issues of belonging to Country where the cultures of my mixed heritage don’t always meet…
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2. Ethics & Decolonising The Earth…
*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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1: Listening…
*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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Dear Country…
*In resistance to the tokenistic acknowledgement of Country, I share the words written on and with Darug and Gundungurra Country in September 2018 as a personalised response to the welcomes given by traditional custodians, and by Country if we dare to listen. I respectfully and lovingly share this acknowledgement of Darug and Gundungurra Country as…
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The Way Home
This soil on my skin Feels like home; This water in my mouth Feels like a kiss; This air that I breathe, Breathes into me. We are beautiful with ochre Instead of make up; We are bright with fire, Not glitter; We are in love with Country and Kin. “It may take many generations, But…
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Fern Speak: Lizard Dragons & Birdosaurs
Follow a grey fantail Leading me on adventures To a fern waving in the wind Waiting for conversation. Ancient plant Primordial fronds of fond Memories of prehistoric beings Time travelling generations. Skink by the stem Jurassic habitat of Tiny lizard dragons And the dancing fantail. Dinosaur descendants: Bird and lizard people Still fed by the…
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Aboriginal Fairy Lights & Lord Of The Rings (Reliving Pain, Peacefully)
*This poem is inspired by a conversation with one of the brightest young ladies I have ever had the pleasure to know. While reliving an immensely overwhelming period of pain and fear in my life, her sweet, gentle wisdom expressed through a child’s view of the world gave me new ways of looking not only…
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Surrendering To Country Pt2: Yarramundi Reborn
*These words are offered in service to the beautiful wise Old People of the Dharug, upon whose ancestral home my life and work are now nourished and nurtured, and to Country Itself, whose living and intentional soul permeates my own. I acknowledge the stolen land, culture, families, and histories here, and through my life-work resist…
“Upside-down for a Bat is right way up.
~ Sara Kianga Bat ~
They’re like me – different, but made with the
right stuff to be who they are.
We’re upside-down people.”
Little Bat 