“And though you beckon and play, we will not stay here long. We will snatch back the child who trusts too far to your song.”
Judith Wright
Excerpt: Seven Songs from a Journey; VI Sea-Beach
Disappearing into deep water … Continued
“And though you beckon and play, we will not stay here long. We will snatch back the child who trusts too far to your song.”
Judith Wright
Excerpt: Seven Songs from a Journey; VI Sea-Beach
Disappearing into deep water … Continued
I love those hot, windless summer evenings. There is a quiet stillness to the world that seems magnified by the mirrored surface of the sea. The last fingers of sun loiter over the beach, reaching out hanging on … Continued
“The dead by the road, or on it, testify to the presence of man. Their little gestures of pain—paws, wings and tails—are the saddest, the loneliest, most forlorn postures of the dead I can imagine. When we have stopped … Continued
Australia floats like a good looking stain in the middle of an ocean of blue. For the most part we who live here have chosen to live around its shores, close … Continued