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| 4171. | Amanda's Painting by Les Murray | | In the painting, I'm seated in a shield,
coming home in it up a shadowy river.
It is a small metal boat lined in eggshell
and my hands grip the gun... |
| 4172. | The Quality Of Sprawl by Les Murray | | Sprawl is the quality
of the man who cut down his Rolls-Royce
into a farm utility truck, and sprawl
is what the company lacked when it made repeate... |
| 4173. | The Sleepout by Les Murray | | Childhood sleeps in a verandah room
in an iron bed close to the wall
where the winter over the railing
swelled the blind on its timber boom
an... |
| 4174. | Predawn In Health by Les Murray | | The stars are filtering through a tree
outside in the moon's silent era.
Reality is moving layer over layer
like crystal spheres now called laws... |
| 4175. | Performance by Les Murray | | I starred that night, I shone:
I was footwork and firework in one,
a rocket that wriggled up and shot
darkness with a parasol of brilliants
and... |
| 4176. | Aurora Prone by Les Murray | | The lemon sunlight poured out far between things
inhabits a coolness. Mosquitoes have subsided,
flies are for later heat.
Every tree's an auburn gi... |
| 4177. | Cockspur Bush by Les Murray | | I am lived. I am died.
I was two-leafed three times, and grazed,
but then I was stemmed and multiplied,
sharp-thorned and caned, nested and raised,... |
| 4178. | Flowering Eucalypt In Autumn by Les Murray | | That slim creek out of the sky
the dried-blood western gum tree
is all stir in its high reaches:
its strung haze-blue foliage is dancing
points... |
| 4179. | If I weep by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi | | If I weep, if I come with excuses, my beloved puts cotton wool in his ears.
Every cruelty which he commits becomes him, every cruelty which he commit... |
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