House of Dreams: Selected Poems
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The poems selected in this book – taken from Thérèse Corfiatis’s four published books, and a Pocket Poet – convey striking images of landscape, childhood, travel and place. Some of the poems have a mystical element. Colour, light and sound weave together the threads of human experience. This book resonates with a
Thérèse Corfiatis
Thérèse Corfiatis lives in Ulverstone, on Tasmania's beautiful north-west coast, where her deep love of landscape has inspired many of the poems in this collection. She was born in Hobart and has lived in Adelaide.
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House of Dreams - Thérèse Corfiatis
House of Dreams
Selected Poems
Thérèse Corfiatis
Ginninderra PressContents
Copyright
Dedication
House of Dreams
Acknowledgements
House of Dreams: Selected Poems
ISBN 978 1 76041 204 3
Copyright © text Thérèse Corfiatis 2016
Cover photo © janonkas
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First published in this form 2016 by
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PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia
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For Paul, Yousif, Kye, Jason, Eddie and Lucy
House of Dreams
Cameron Street Cameo
South Hobart
First memories are of peering
Through the garden gate,
Wooden palings with gaps between them,
Staring out curiously upon the world.
Above me
Gigantic high-domed sky.
It was then I loved the colour blue.
A red-brick church
Soared to the right of me,
In my mind a monumental structure –
And my mother’s garden
Bordered with small neat stones.
The old house seemed so huge,
Narrow staircases ascending
To attic rooms at either end.
I played there with make-believe friends
As real to me as my own voice.
I awoke one night
(Or was I dreaming?)
Stretching up to look out
Over the window sill,
And from my upstairs room
I thought I saw a small pink elephant.
One day my plaits got caught
Tangling in the washer’s wringer
Hair starting to tear from the scalp.
Shrieks of help sent mother rushing in.
Just in time she saved me.
And a memory
Of waiting for my father to come home.
He walked briskly from the bus stop
Up Angelsea Street
His long coat flapping in the wind,
His cigarette trailing little clouds of smoke.
I would run to meet him and
He would stop and stand quite still,
A concerned look upon his face,
Catching me up in strong arms.
My little brothers,
One still