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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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Sacred Place
*Photo of Ngurumpaa by S.Judge 2019. Country clings to sweat, tasting each other As we walk together amongst the reaching hands Of Acacia, Geebung, and Eucalypt. Reaching hands that stroke and caress Animal skin with leafy fingers, Getting to know the contours of each muscle As soil meets the soles of seeking feet. A drop…
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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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Pied Butcherbird Affinity
*Photo by Geoff Dennis. Last night, I couldn’t… … Find my voice. Failure to con-nect Came up from within To choke speech Into silent scream. Animal me wanted To run into the wet fields Of lamentation, Howling and growling Grief for the worlds To which I feel no belonging. Instead, sleep descended Down here, deep…
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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…
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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…
“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 