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Iconography.(Poem)

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| June 01, 1999 | McKenzie, Geraldine | (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
Iconography. 
 
Geraldine McKenzie 
 
1. Town 
 
My world began with church and school 
dwindling from the top of the silky oak 
in our front yard -- 
 
we were emperors 
curved like lizards under grape vines 
wading in lily fields 
a slow tug of coolness round the knees 
 
plaiting juice sweat light -- 
heavy strand of summer banked 
upon a locquat's mottled branches 
 
2. Bush learning 
 
In the choir of leaves light 
   holds each bough to its blue face 
milky teeth peeling bark 
 
peppermints coiled with skin 
   a candle stump's embalmed estuary. 
I know this heat of gums exhaling -- 
 
dust-creased … 
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