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The aftermath
After manic
spring storms
bottlebrushes
are stripped
bare –
shredded
blossoms
sluggish
in sandstone
gutters
ripple slow
as blood
before
congealing
Colleen Z Burke’s most recent and twelfth poetry collection is ‘Sculpting a landscape’ 2019. She has also published two memoirs The Waves Turn and The Human Heart is a Bold Traveller and is co-editor of the anthology The Turning Wave: Poems and Songs of Irish Australia.
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