Thomas Munro, The Uluru Statement from the Heart

After the Voice Referendum: Thomas Mayo
Bronwyn’s Book Launch, Newcastle Writers Festival

Her poems are alive, they talk to us.
Oyster Creek has been poisoned

Oyster Creek runs behind us and through JagunNR. It is polluted with arsenic
Our forests still being devasted

The future Great Koala National Park (GKNP) is being logged
Australasian Darter

The Darter has a stilleto bill to spear fish
Picked clean

The retreating tide abandons two skeletons
Kangaroos drinking, Millba, 7 Feb

Kangaroos do need to drink but not very often
A second brood for many birds

A juvenile Koel continually begging from Noisy Friarbirds
Gliders in the house and garden

Feathertail Glider saved from drowning.
Solstice, 21 Dec

As we turn away from the sun, the rays turn heavy, rich as a baroque church