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Fracking (Graham Akhurst)

Verity La October 28, 2015 Black Cockatoo, Poetry

(edited by Phillip Hall) lured by haunted white space I fill the page with egret bloom with flame tree impart wisdom in lake’s reflection nature’s metaphor conjures beauty for a …

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Master of the Ghost Dreaming (Graham Akhurst)

Verity La May 29, 2015 Black Cockatoo, Poetry

A bloodied sunset reminds us That ghosts come from the ocean in the dark They bellow on trumpets And greedily watch sails flex Drawing them closer They leave their dreaming …

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