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ANNE KELLAS

Afternoon
          The distant barking of the dogs of war
          and the panicked laughter of children
          caught up in the autumn afternoon,
          with the leaves running,
          and the trees holding on,
 
          and always the music
          hidden in the order of it all
          the condition of all things good,
          aspired to, met
          in this now-ness of bone, fibre, pen,
 
          this soft voice of knowledge
          saying, at last,
          Peace rising up out of its torpor of sleep
          staggering into the sunlight,
          almost too late.

Anne Kellas is an Australian poet who has been published in a variety of Australian journals since 1990. Her second book, Isolated States was released in 2001 [Cornford Press, Tasmania).