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    The Eucalypt Distillery
    The Eucalypt Distillery
    The Eucalypt Distillery
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    The Eucalypt Distillery

    By Michele Fermanis-Winward

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    Michele Fermanis-Winward lives on the edge of bushland in the upper Blue Mountains of New South Wales, part of the World Heritage National Park. The trees and wildlife surrounding her home are a constant inspiration

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateDec 6, 2017
    ISBN9781760414702
    The Eucalypt Distillery
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    Michele Fermanis-Winward

    Michele Fermanis-Winward lives and works on the unceded lands of the Yaluk-ut Weelam of the Boon Wurrung and the Darug and Gundungurra people. She pays respect to these traditional owners and to elders past and present.

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      The Eucalypt Distillery - Michele Fermanis-Winward

      The Eucalypt Distillery

      The Eucalypt Distillery

      Michele Fermanis-Winward

      Ginninderra Press

      The Eucalypt Distillery

      ISBN 978 1 76041 470 2

      Copyright © text Michele Fermanis-Winward 2017

      Cover image: Marie Therese Elz

      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.

      First published 2017 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      I dedicate this collection to Deb Westbury who showed me it was possible.

      Contents

      Summer

      Autumn

      Winter

      Spring

      Acknowledgements

      Also by Michele Fermanis-Winward & published by Ginninderra Press

      Summer

      The Word is Beautiful

      There are words, invisible threads

      slung between branches,

      they capture the changes,

      whisper to the trees,

      find shelter in pools of mist.

      Wet leaves become light-brushes

      for words to paint the shadows,

      turn black and grey bright colour.

      Words are feathers, ephemeral,

      long spikes of green and blue,

      the fragile reds and yellows,

      they make unruly chatter,

      gather in corners, swirl

      on the wing-beats of summer.

      Words unwrap their petals

      offer complex perfume to the air,

      blend notes of spice and fruit.

      Down twisting paths I find

      a word to guide my way,

      the one to nourish life,

      a word with power to heal,

      the power to make me whole.

      The Runaway

      Beside the track

      a meadow blooms,

      sun sharp

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