in collection Fence Music,
2004,
Ginninderra Press, ISBN 1 74027 272 2
Hydra 1984
They are
absent from this photograph
the things
that came between us : silence
and the way
it breathed in sleep, shadows
crossing our
minds and the cold wells
of eyes no
longer seeking. They are absent
from this
photograph, this time of love
when sunlight
from water caught our glance,
held us,
consumed us in the eyes of strangers
bright love,
charting a course like the caiques
bold and
shining, heading to sea around us.
Ann Nadge
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