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It's almost a year since Charmaine passed, and I want to mark this with a poem that was written at the same time as the sequence I posted for 'CPG' in October last year, after Tracy and I had gone on to Charmaine's birth Country and paid our respects to her spirit and to those of her ancestors. We send Charmaine's family and her people our best and wish to honour her memory, always.
Fringed Lily at Eradu
Defies the drift
of clearance
and establishes
a zone of intense
expression, fringes
vibrating with vocalisations
of story and curiosity,
of insect visitation.
Afterimages burn
deep to remind us
when seasons are forced
to work with the blanked
sandplain, to reach
far back into seedbanks,
to remember
the flourishing.
John Kinsella
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