JAN KEMPThe GypsySuddenly before you, half-turned, she smilesthis gypsy who leads and leaves,her insouciant anklets like an Indian dancer's firsthalf-heard then listened for, like a known footfall, orsearched for like the half-tum of a loved head in a crowd.This is her, this hel she, this poetry you follow,leaving the lovers embracing like gentle snakes coiledon the verandah; this is her you've jetted and jettisonedthe world for, the sight of her face which comes,an annunciation, after music and before sleep.8WESTERLY, No.2, JUNE, 1989
JAN KEMPGoddessesfor Cathy CookNow that we live alone, we women who dothere is much we have time forwhereas he and hisfilled the interstices of our days.Our minds were the gaps we came toin his absences and wondered at, likepatternings of leaves on a tea-cup's sideor consulted in almanacs or werewhat we thought we saw, way up therebetween the tree's foliage and the skyfrom where we lay below, just woken on a rugin brief moments, active, alone, alive.Now he is lost, dead, gone mad or dailydeliberately forgotten, because past had andimpossible to have, we must re-make our livesand find new goddesses to get throughthe day to day; a job, true friends,little things to look forward to andabove all search that lotusplosive in the mindwhose unfolding is in seekingand whose pond must be still as clarityand fearless for her to float likea Cleopatra down a sceptred Nilethe river of her thoughts and feelings,her rushes of memory, past her banks of pliable,dark arability, dressed in her own imagesfrom her own antique temples.These, you could say are the secretsof her millenia's entombment, as she surfacesnewly discovered, like a gold-lidded facewhose lapis eyes are seeing, can now be seen.WESTERLY, No.2, JUNE, 1989 9
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WARRICK WYNNEThe Wetlands (for Liam
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JAN OWENSmileOur mother aimed the b
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RICHARD KELLY TIPPINGOlympic Airway
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DAVID REITERBear by the Jasper Road
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He had hair like mine used to be, t
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OLIVE PELLThe QuestionTell me how t
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BRIAN MOONANAT 515: MASS LECTURE Th
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PETER KIRKPATRICKTear HereThe bay i
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JOHN WINTERThe Bird ManIn wooded, p
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KNUTE SKINNERAugust 15There's a lig
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M.E. PATTI WALKERThe Hook"Aren't yo
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GEOFF GOODFELLOWToo MuchDianne is 1
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SHANE McCAULEYSouth Fremantle, Summ
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JEAN KENTWaiting Out the DroughtWai
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STEPHEN MAGEEJesus Falls, South Aus
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Summer Leaves". This continues the
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Deficiency Bill in Western Australi
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invocation of pastoral near the beg
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VINCENT O'SULLIVAN - is one of New
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