- NOV 1994
WALLEAH
PRESS
CURRAJAH
FAMOUS
REPORTER
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- Harvest
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- Hay's cut; shining ridges
- like ritual scars in moonlight.
- I stretch out on heaps
- that sweat lightly:
- ground I'm on could
- turn in its sleep.
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- Yellow houselights are
- small and strange
- in dark silver, out here
- where night-creatures wait
- to bring moonlight inside.
- Windows are fretted with
snailscript,
- silverfish pool in shadows,
- come to eat leavings;
- paper, shed skin; enter
- when lights go out.
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- Cut grass lies beautiful
- under the moon.
- Paper and skin turn to moondust,
- smeared moth-wing, all
lattice-work,
- nibbled parchment.
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- Every harvest is end, beginning,
- bright knife, healing wound.
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- Angela Rockel has been published in The
Age, Island, Meanjin, Southerly and Southern Review. A forthcoming
collection with Penguin Australia is scheduled for publication in February, 1995. Since
1979 she has been farming south of Hobart; 'I'm interested in connection with place, the
strategic use of a personal voice, the exploration of non-dialectical experience, the use
of language that is musically motivated.'
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