Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Acknowledgments
Dedication
The Family Farmers’ Victory
A Brief History
Where Humans Can’t Leave and Mustn’t Complain
Green Rose Tan
The Say-but-the-Word Centurion Attempts a Summary
Dead Trees in the Dam
Rock Music
The Rollover
Late Summer Fires
Corniche
Suspended Vessels
The Water Column
The Beneficiaries
The Maenads
The Portrait Head
In Phrygia, Birthplace of Embroidery
Like Wheeling Stacked Water
The Sand Coast Sonnets
Wallis Lake Estuary
Twin Towns History
The Sand Dingoes
On Home Beaches
Leash Chain
From Bennett’s Head
The Bohemian Occupation
The Fossil Imprint
On the Present Slaughter of Feral Animals
Memories of the Height-to-Weight Ratio
Water-Gardening in an Old Farm Dam
The Suspension of Knock
It Allows a Portrait in Line-Scan at Fifteen
Performance
War Song
Australian Love Poem
Inside Ayers Rock
Each Morning Once More Seamless
Contested Landscape at Forsayth
The Shield-Scales of Heraldry
The Year of the Kiln Portraits
Under the Banana Mountains
A Stage in Gentrification
Earth Tremor at Night
Waking Up on Tour
Tympan Alley
A Lego of Driving to Sydney
Burning Want
For the Sydney Jewish Museum
The Last Hellos
Opening in England
My Ancestress and the Secret Ballot
Comete
Dry Water
Life Cycle of Ideas
Cotton Flannelette
The Trances
The Devil
The Nearly Departed
The Warm Rain
For Helen Darville
Demo
Deaf Language
Reverse Light
The Genetic Galaxy
Blowfly Grass
Below Bronte House
The Head-Spider
Dreambabwe
About the Author
Also by Les Murray
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