Detainee
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how easily a speck of bird
shatters the evenness of skies—
shatters the evenness of skies—
she peers, stunned, from cell 22
that such dumb minuteness
can shake the earth
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by Merlinda Bobis
from Summer was a fast train without terminals
publisher: Spinifex, North Melbourne, 1998
from Summer was a fast train without terminals
publisher: Spinifex, North Melbourne, 1998