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Antipodean Waving
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A poem about hybrid identities from Australian based poet Ian Irvine. Copyright 2008-2009, all rights reserved. Image of 'Marcus and Lena Waving from Gold Tailings'(i.e. the author's children) copyright Kyra Bethell/Ian Irvine 1999 all rights reserved.


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Mother Europe!
            (though let’s not be too
            gender specific)
I’m waving at the edges
            of your apocalypse.
Waving
            at your anaesthetised hordes
            scrapered amongst the phantoms
of forests.
 
I’m waving
            ankle deep in sand-dune
I’m waving
            respectful of scorpion
and secretive reptiles
            mercurial as mid-summer
            sunlight strange
angle
            of rock face, dusk
            and dawn igniting.
 
And my head hurts
            on account of all these memories
and dehydration, or is it
            vertigo of a zone without
boundaries?
 
Mother Europe!
            (though let’s not be too
            gender specific).
 

 

 


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