Poem

'Moth', a new poem by Debi Hamilton

by Debi Hamilton •

November 2014, no. 366

Poem

'Moth', a new poem by Debi Hamilton

by Debi Hamilton •

November 2014, no. 366

Digging in the garden I found a moth
albinoed on a piece of bark by the fence.
Those were my radiation days; it was good
to lay down the spade and kneel in the soil.

Debi Hamilton

Debi Hamilton is a Melbourne writer, poet, and psychologist. She was joint winner of the Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2014, and her second poetry collection, The Sly Night Creatures of Desire, was published in 2016.