Walleah
Press
Currajah
skirting the periphery
Famous
Reporter
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Never So Violent
- We champions of the free
- lack wonder, endanger
- our indifferent democracy
- smarting from historical
- atrocity denied, corrupting
- our easy affluence. Grasping
- nervous platitudes, the face
- of everyday coercion is
- hot and close.
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- I came here for freedom,
- I was shocked to be taken.
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- Beating the pain,
- patrolling the evidence,
- those imprisoned refugees
- suffer, invisible as hordes,
- risk their voices again,
- to politics and our morals
- reverting to law and
- order calls for the troops.
- Why then are we stunned
- to encounter the struggle
- of memory against this
- legal exercise of force?
Anne Collins lives in
Hobart. She writes poetry, essays, reviews and stories. Her work has been published in
magazines and journals in Australia, N.Z. and the U.S. She recently completed her first
libretto and hopes to write more of these in the future.
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