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    Walk the Wildly
    Walk the Wildly
    Walk the Wildly
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    Walk the Wildly

    By Lizz Murphy

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    Walk the Wildly with Lizz Murphy in this, her fifth collection of poetry, where winter is a lumbering lantern-jawed season, spring is a baking back, untimely frost a trollop. There are women of precise skirts, men with shipwrecked backs and locals who inspect the brash blue, foreheads strained like fence wire. Reflecting on absence and

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateAug 7, 2017
    ISBN9781760413910
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      Book preview

      Walk the Wildly - Lizz Murphy

      Walk the Wildly

      Walk the Wildly

      Lizz Murphy

      Ginninderra Press

      Walk the Wildly

      ISBN 978 1 76041

      391

      0

      Copyright © text Lizz

      Murphy

      2009

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      This edition published

      2017

      by

      Picaro Press – an

      imprint

      of

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      Contents

      Walk the Wildly

      Acknowledgements

      Also by Lizz Murphy

      Walk the Wildly

      Walk the Wildly

      Walk the wildly wending hoof-path Sloping slanting

      unreconciled land Oak sideboards cast

      iron

      keys

      cutlery drawers clover-lined Pasture grazed

      down

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