Lionheart Summer

By Kevin Densley

‘Kevin Densley’s new poetry collection offers a gently ironic look at the blind spots in our everyday odyssey through life. We are carried into a contemporary small town mindscape built atop the white and infinite marble of ancient myth, infiltrated by pop culture and urban legend. These poems offer a sensuous evaluation of life, whi

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Sep 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781760416195

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Lionheart Summer

Lionheart Summer

Kevin Densley

Ginninderra Press

Lionheart Summer

ISBN 978 1 76041 619 5

Copyright © text Kevin Densley 2011

Cover: an illustration of Richard I Cour de Lion from a 12th century codex, licenced under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_coeurdelion_g.jpg

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First published by Picaro Press 2011

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This edition published 2018 by

Picaro Press – an imprint of

Ginninderra Press

PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

www.ginninderrapress.com.au

Contents

Lionheart Summer

Acknowledgements

to my family

Lionheart Summer

Lionheart Summer

Adelaide, 1980

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The vines twisted around the pergola

in my grandmother’s backyard

were gnarled and old;

the afternoon heat unbearable.

But when evening came

the sea breeze wafted through

and we’d sit outside drinking beer or wine

until darkness fell.

Inside the bluestone house,

the temperature never rose;

afternoons I’d fold

into a comfy chair,

frosty Southwark