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    Breath & other poems
    Breath & other poems
    Breath & other poems
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    Breath & other poems

    By Thérèse Corfiatis

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    Thérèse Corfiatis lives in Ulverstone on Tasmania's beautiful north-west coast. Her passion for the natural world, its shape, substance and light - 'a heaviness of bent

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateMay 30, 2020
    ISBN9781760419134
    Breath & other poems
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    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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      Breath & other poems - Thérèse Corfiatis

      Breath

      Breath

      & other poems

      Thérèse Corfiatis

      Ginninderra Press

      Breath & other poems

      ISBN 978 1 76041 913 4

      Copyright © text Thérèse Corfiatis 2020

      Cover photo: Thérèse Corfiatis

      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 2020 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      Contents

      Breath & other poems

      Also by Thérèse Corfiatis and published by Ginninderra Press

      For Maureen and Teena, with love

      Breath & other poems

      Acacia Avenues

      Avenues of wattle

      cluster at the road’s edge

      a heaviness of bent colour

      an arcing over of gold

      It seems as if banners

      of green and yellow

      have swept down beside me

      heralding my way

      Apple Pie Autumn Sunsets

      Sunsets glossy

      an apple’s waxen cheek,

      layered clouds are piled upon each other

      a pie’s risen crust,

      atmospheric vapours drift

      scents of salty ocean

      windswept sand, damp air.

      Pigeons in Flight

      a conglomeration of beating hearts

      shifting heads, bright eyes

      patterns rolled out upon the air

      beaks shearing all directions

      as if an unseen hand

      scattered seeds of living joy

      into the sky

      white underbellies flash

      so too the undersides of wings

      flight like unfurling banners

      hammered light

      striking sunlit feathers

      a bevy of glints and gleaming

      burning heaven’s blue

      Autumn Sunset Walk

      Road tapers off

      like a long arrowhead

      its tip consumed by fire

      Above, clouds erupt

      rosy blushes

      infuse sky with colour

      Wind lifts up leaves

      a curling wave

      of russet-ruby rustlings

      Late Summer Twilight

      Trees, sea-bent, appear as one –

      limbs, trunks, leaves

      a mishmash of variegated green

      releasing breath to windswept shores.

      And so, the eye is drawn heavenwards

      to realms fantastic

      lilac-rose, shimmering pinks and peach

      trembling above a silvering sea.

      In rolls and rills, shoreline unfolds

      stitching tight the seam of land and sea

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