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Black Cockatoos

October 3, 2023 11:46 pm Published by Comments Off on Black Cockatoos

JUDITH WRIGHTMusic – Paul Kelly and James Ledger (Sony/ATV) Each certain kind of weather or of lighthas its own creatures. Somewhere else they waitas though they but inhabited heat or cold,twilight or dawn, and knew no other state.Then at their time they come, timid or bold. So when the long drought-winds, sandpaper-harsh,were still, and the air changed, and the clouds came,and other birds were quiet in prayer or fear,these knew their hour. Before the first far flashlit up, or the... View Article

The Darkling Thrush

September 8, 2023 4:32 am Published by Comments Off on The Darkling Thrush

I leant upon a coppice gateWhen Frost was spectre-grey,And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres,And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land’s sharp features seemed to be The Century’s corpse outleant,His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament.The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry,And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. At once a voice... View Article