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- JEFF GUESS
- Bibaringa Winter
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- Only the ghost of a rumour -
- heard third hand from an early
bulletin
- will have the youngest child
- awake all night and dreaming of
snow.
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- Curtains in the long passage
- allow the free movement of other
presences
- and somewhere below, the cellar
swims
- in cold and silence.
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- Hens are cooped white phantoms
- fenced by a first grey stringy
light:
- mud and slush deep in grass
- beyond the bamboos the town is
lost to rain.
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- Today the dog won't move from
the hearth,
- one cat on the ironing board
- another by the stove -
- left-over lamb and onion stews
in the pot.
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- Steamed windows give no
perspective out,
- each pane is a strange lens
- refracting back grey wraiths of
day
- coaxed into warm colours of fire
and wine.
JEFF GUESS was
born in Adelaide in 1948. His work has appeared in many Australian and overseas journals,
newspapers and anthologies.
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