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| Article Type: | Poem |
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Fetal death
(Portrayals) Stillbirth (Portrayals) |
| Author: | Utting, Susie |
| Pub Date: | 05/01/2010 |
| Publication: | Name: Hecate Publisher: Hecate Press Audience: Academic Format: Magazine/Journal Subject: Women's issues/gender studies Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2010 Hecate Press ISSN: 0311-4198 |
| Issue: | Date: May-Nov, 2010 Source Volume: 36 Source Issue: 1-2 |
| Topic: | NamedWork: Stillborn (Utting, Susie) (Poem) |
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| Accession Number: | 246529789 |
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(For my mother 1915-1994)
Here, in the playground toes of ghost gum trees
poke through all this rank fennel & blue
forget-me-not stars child eyes lost in the bush.
Below, in the cold earth sleep daffodils--
tiny bulb-bodies naked in their winter cots
still like babies buried in the bush.
behind, I hear my grandson play
cap-gun soldiers shrilling & whooping
to shoot the swirly-whirly straight down the sky.
there, in the ghost gum babies cry--
i hear you still. |
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