The Tuesday Poem: “Outback”
Outback
red dirt drifts
along narrow tyre
tracks
heat shimmers
against bleached
sky
a homestead settles
into earth, its last
neighbour
a solitary chimney
– the car slows,
stops
ochre dust
filters through air
conditioning
coats everything:
clothes, shoes,
skin
the screen door sags
on its hinges, hello
echoes
through empty rooms
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(c) Helen Lowe 2008
Published in Poetry NZ (September 2008)
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A poem on an Australian theme, in recognition of my Australian comrades-in-poetry in the Tuesday Poem community.
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I’ve been enjoying reading some of your own poems, as a change from all the Tuesday poems from other writers that you so generously promote.
Thank you,Catherine: I thought it was time mixed it up a little. 😉