Rupture
Christopher Konrad (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
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Dawn on this scarp, the Darling
misty um-welt crinkle
crusty pause on desert’s edge
clay and granite bleeding from its valleys
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These windy hill roads trace to curious ends
orchard cul de sacs filled with pioneer relics
antique fruit, perpetually stalled tractors, march flies
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Tufted acreage surrounds derelict farmhouse plaster and
it was long ago but her desperation still reaches through these hills
“Get out! Get out and stay out!” she screamed on their last day
broken enough and so much bleeding already
seeping through those walls
cascading into the daybreak of their rupture
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Chris has lived in the hills around Perth and is married to a wonderful partner of twenty five years with four children. He is currently undertaking PhD in writing and has had poems published with four other WA poets in an anthology called Amber Contains the Sun (2008) and in several hardcopy journals and online zines and journals.