States of Poetry ACT Poems
States of Poetry 2017 - ACT | 'After Reming' by Merlinda Bobis
Merlinda Bobis
Monday, 22 February 2016
After Reming
Super typhoon 2006
‘Purple.
Unlike any that I’ve seen,’
Mother says.
‘Behind an iron gate
beside an immense hole
on the ground,
but no house.’
She pauses,
and I’m suddenly
beside the purple
behind the gate
in the hole
in the house,
led by the definite article,
thus defini ...
Published in
States of Poetry ACT - Series Two
States of Poetry 2016 - TAS | 'Winter' by Adrienne Eberhard
Adrienne Eberhard
Monday, 22 February 2016
kangaroo grass
ramayana puppet
angled, spare
you gesture with sharp fingers
beckoning insistent
eloqu ...
Published in
States of Poetry Tasmania - Series One