Nullarbor
- Nullarbor
pinned between horizonsthe wind sings of a truant seadark tracks snake the saltbushand sky's ocean sweepsa passage to the moon
here, the city's pulse retreatschill rivers run beneathwatchful kestrels wheeland lizards whisper of a creeping dawn
Here, far from water's echoa shellwaves once licked this skinthen left it preyaeons' certainty a smooth tattoo
cream and cooland dirt-curledit winks. [End Page 138]
Catherine Wright's poems and creative nonfiction have been published in literary journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas and have won—or been short-listed—for a number of awards, including the Newcastle Poetry Prize. She is completing the manuscript of her first collection of poems, The Consolation of Birds, and lives in Armidale, NSW. This is her first appearance in Antipodes.
