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ROBYN CADWALLADER
bird moon bell
A single hair asleep upon the pillow, black against the bonded white where only wavy blonde should show its face. Endings begin thus quietly. The flower nestled behind her ear had trembled as she danced. One petal’s orange tip began to fade, pollen fell like gold dust on her neck. She wishes her garden were a still space and its bird a nightingale to sing the moon and raise the sun, the lonely moments of her day. Brick upon brick built tall a wall of red and solid certainty marks a defence against the dark. The unknown peers over in the night. Curved like hill or crest or breast flared like a daring song or swirling skirt swung like a woman hung for speaking out of place the bell hides darkly in its tower cell. Robyn Cadwallader teaches literature and creative writing at Flinders University. She has had work published in various Australian journals. She lives amongst the trees in the Adelaide Hills.
A single hair asleep upon the pillow, black against the bonded white where only wavy blonde should show its face. Endings begin thus quietly. The flower nestled behind her ear had trembled as she danced. One petal’s orange tip began to fade, pollen fell like gold dust on her neck. She wishes her garden were a still space and its bird a nightingale to sing the moon and raise the sun, the lonely moments of her day. Brick upon brick built tall a wall of red and solid certainty marks a defence against the dark. The unknown peers over in the night. Curved like hill or crest or breast flared like a daring song or swirling skirt swung like a woman hung for speaking out of place the bell hides darkly in its tower cell.
Robyn Cadwallader teaches literature and creative writing at Flinders University. She has had work published in various Australian journals. She lives amongst the trees in the Adelaide Hills.