Flight AnimalsCollection of poems dealing with the theme of movement - of both the body and the mind. Author is the winner of the 2000 Arts Queensland Poetry Prize and the 2001 Somerset National Poetry Prize. |
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afraid animals ankles arch arranging beauty believe birds blue body bride butterflies child colour CONTEMPLATING CHAOS daughter desire DISTANCE DRIVING edge empty eyes face falling feeling feet fight fingers Five flowers foot forget grass green ground Growing hair hand head heel Horses human hurt husband inside known leaf learning leaving light living look loss lover matter memory mind morning mountain neck Nepenthe never night Omar Khayyám orange ORIGINAL past peel pine pink poem poetry pressed rain remember rock roll rose sand says seven sitting skin SLEEP smell smile smoked soft sole sometimes space spring stand things touch travelled tree turn types Vase walking wall watching wings woman Woman Holding write yellow