Build a house, a subject close
To dreams … where snow falls
Outside and dingoes pad, making
Shadows. Up the stairs to light —
The night will pass like black
Oxygen. Down the stairs to fear
Is a way to absorb experience.
A house has to learn. You come
Later … and in dreams and storms return.
VERONICA MALLEY is a retired schoolteacher. She lives with her companion in an inner suburb of Melbourne. Of the Romantics she prefers Byron; she is writing a long work entitled 'Peas and cantos'.
REVEALED!
As reported on Cordite News Explosion, we're moved and astonished to admit that we didn't pick Michael Farrell as the author of this so-called poem.
