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States of Poetry - Poems

States of Poetry 2016 - New South Wales | 'Daybreak' by Kate Middleton

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States of Poetry New South Wales - Series One
States of Poetry - Poems

States of Poetry 2016 - New South Wales | 'Daybreak' by Kate Middleton

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States of Poetry New South Wales - Series One

The dawn is only a thought.

The fulcrum on which we rest our newsprint, our toothless fingerprints, our balmy Paxil days.

Only a thought of the windy, dwindling kind.

Wake to urgent messages, to the waltz of hours crisp and fragile as thin pastry. To roulette of lightning yes. Of arid no.

 

Kate Middleton

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Kate Middleton

Kate Middleton is an Australian writer. She is the author of the poetry collections Fire Season (Giramondo, 2009), awarded the Western Australian Premier’s Award for Poetry in 2009 and Ephemeral Waters (Giramondo, 2013), shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s award in 2014. From September 2011-September 2012 she was the inaugural Sydney City Poet. 

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