Susan Hawthorne
overhead an alphabet of birds fly
crossing through one world to another
handkerchiefs in the wind
unbraiding gravity
vines grow between earth and sky
elastic strung from sky hooks
moths fly blind in daylight
circle like the hands of an accordion
player in the mania of a fast riff
at noon poplars gloat leafing clouds
their shadows a necklaced track
dappled light gravels the ground
Susan Hawthorne’s latest poetry collection is Lupa and Lamb (2014). Others include Limen (2013), Cow (2011), Earth’s Breath (2009), The Butterfly Effect (2005) and Bird (1999). Cow was shortlisted for the 2012 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize and Earth’s Breath for the 2010 Judith Wright Poetry Prize.
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