POETRY.
ARES He has no memory, and what he sees is that nothing is happening… only life itself — pigeons on terraces, hot dinners, urchins in a...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 16, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
ANDROMEDA She was the first pin-up. Naked and bejewelled, she was chained to a rock, then thrown by heavy-breathing winds into wild...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 14, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
ANDROMACHE Heroes widow their wives, who must embrace paradox: After he left, I was with him all the time; his every ache, deprivation, I...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 13, 2022
- 2 min
POETRY.
ENTER WITHOUT SO MUCH AS KNOCKING Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris. Blink, blink. HOSPITAL. SILENCE. Ten days...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
LET GO Let go of my hand Let me be what I want to be Let go of my hand The sands of time Are trickling before me I have not yet Achieved...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 11, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
THEY SHOULD HAVE ASKED MY HUSBAND You know, this world is complicated and imperfect and oppressed, And it’s not hard to feel timid,...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 10, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
AUSTRALIA A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey In the field uniform of modern wars, Darkens her hills, those endless,...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 8, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
FIRE This life that we call our own Is neither strong nor free; A flame in the wind of death, It trembles ceaselessly. And this all we...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 4, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
MUNICIPAL GUM Gumtree in the city street, Hard bitumen around your feet, Rather you should be In the cool world of leafy forest halls And...
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Neale Lucas
- Sep 25, 2022
- 2 min
POETRY.
THE SONG OF THE SURF White steeds of ocean, that leap with a hollow and wearisome roar On the bar of ironstone steep, not a fathom's...
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Neale Lucas
- Sep 21, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
THE APPLICANT First, are you our sort of a person? Do you wear A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch, A brace or a hook, Rubber breasts or...
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Neale Lucas
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
FLOWERING EUCALYPT IN AUTUMN That slim creek out of the sky the dried-blood western gum tree is all stir in its high reaches: its strung...
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Neale Lucas
- Sep 11, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
IF I SHOULD DIE If I should die, And you should live, And time should gurgle on, And morn should beam, And noon should burn, As it has...
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Neale Lucas
- Sep 9, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
SECOND ATTEMPT CROSSING In the middle of that desert that didn’t look like sand and sand only, in the middle of those acacias, whiptails,...
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Neale Lucas
- Sep 6, 2022
- 2 min
POETRY.
UP THE COUNTRY I am back from up the country — very sorry that I went — Seeking for the Southern poets' land whereon to pitch my tent; I...
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Neale Lucas
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
POETRY.
A HISTORY LESSON Sweaty after a bout the young prince towels his body, sprawls against the wall of a tennis court. His body seems his...
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Neale Lucas
- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
GOOD-NIGHT Good-night! . . . my darling sleeps so sound She cannot hear me where she lies; White lilies watch the closed eyes, Red roses...
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Neale Lucas
- Aug 25, 2022
- 1 min
POETRY.
I AM SHUT OUT OF MINE OWN HEART I am shut out of mine own heart because my love is far from me, nor in the wonders have I part that fill...
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Neale Lucas
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
POETRY.
AN ABSOLUTELY ORDINARY RAINBOW The word goes round Repins, the murmur goes round Lorenzinis, at Tattersalls, men look up from sheets of...
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Neale Lucas
- Aug 22, 2022
- 2 min
POETRY.
I absolutely love "GIRL WITH A PEARL EARING" by Tracy Chevalier, and am a big fan of Vermeer as well. So I have no problem with posting...
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