the GEM COLLECTION 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

Kingfisher� a Journal of Northwest Art and Literature

Kingfisher� a Journal of Northwest Art and Literature: "KINGFISHER

The blunt big slate-blue dashing cockaded head

Cocked and the tapering thick of the bill

Sidelong for a black eye staring down

From the elm branch over the pool now poised

Exactly for this immediate movement diving

In a single wingflap wingfold plunging

Slapwash not quite all the way under

The swirling water and upward instantly

In a swerving spiral back to the good branch

With a fingerling catfish before the ripples

Have reached me sitting nearby to follow it

With a flip of a shake from crestfeathers to white

Bibcoker down the crawhatch suddenly

Seeing me and swooping away cackling

From the belt streaked rusty over the full belly."

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Saturday, October 2, 2010

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National Library Of Australia | Private Lives Revealed

National Library Of Australia | Private Lives Revealed: "But those good old camping spots are gone, those green and shady places,
They're scooping on the Joonamar where once we held the races,
Now the jackass laughs no longer in those tall old river gums,
The black jay and the currawongs from the hill no longer come"

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