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I am living in Canberra Australia after spending 2009-2010 studying at Goldsmiths College for an MA in Creative and Life Writing. I am working on a second collection.
The sun wakes me at sea
Vancouver Island to my left;
to my right mocha seals
bask on mottled rocks.
Sitka spruces a dark mystery
– the Rockies a snow of alabaster;
sky and sea are celestine and silver.
Out here in the blind of morning,
I squint through binoculars and see
a bald eagle hook himself to hemlock.
His head looks like a tennis ball thrown
high into the morning air by a careless child.
Poem published in Island Magazine (Tasmania, Australia), 2009
Publications:
The Wardrobe, 2009, Ginninderra Press, ISBN 978-1-7402758-0-4. £7.00.
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