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Special N.02 – Poets speak up to Adani

tarred cracks

by Anne Buchanan-Stuart

small seeded shapes of weeping windmill grasses

peel back their curling bodies along black tar streams

— kicking up the passage of summer white —

Wild grasses dig in.                   On the verge

— ululating the roaded way,

on the tar black margins.

One seed escapes; airborne / stillborn /

another slips between flash-wheels

still another, blown by cacophony

settles.          Cracked …

wordless

this wind-waved-word — this

mar                                  this                                   split/unspelt

clodded soil —

wildwind’s gentle seeds    —  stray —

fused between

tarred cracks

Published: August 2022
Anne Buchanan-Stuart

is a doctoral candidate at Queensland’s Griffith University. Her doctoral project reads philosophy and poetry together.

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