as we are

By | 15 February 2023





the colonial state curates a fiction
of brutal modernity

insistent settlers

entrap

place-time

is
rich

with vast storying
an act of being
a gesture

that

bonds

the mythscape alive and breathing

storytellers

break
grow
plait


Note: This is a found poem based on the essay, As We Are: A Call Across The Islands, written by Jeanine Leane, published in ‘Sydney Review
of Books’, 29 November 2021, which reviews the book Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers, by Elissa
Washuta and Teresa Warburton (editors).

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