I like that there's an intuitive, sudden rhythm to this, a sort of
hurried trimeter that speaks for the aborigine feel.
KS
On 26/09/2007, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ngallagunda girl dances
> seven years old
> thin black body
> silhouetted on
> pindan dirt
>
> Ngallagunda girl dances
> songless and alone
> head cocked left
> watching her
> undulating shadow
> to get it right
> to move like Mum
>
> as little brother
> plays muster
> in the dirt where
> king browns mated
> under a full moon
> their tracks
> lyrical in the sun
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> Andrew
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