A white lily throws
open her dazzling petals
like stretched brolga’s wings
Headlights slit apart
tall thistles arguing in
the violent cold wind.
Source: Porter, D & Millett, J (eds) 1989, ‘On Struggle Street – An Anthology of New Poets’, Poetry Australia 122, South Head Press, Port Melbourne, p. 7.
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