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Merinda Dutton

Merinda Dutton is a Barkandji and Gumbaynggirr woman, mother, lawyer, and co-founder of Blackfulla Bookclub on Instagram, whose creative practice explores kinship, country, and justice through poetry and storytelling. Her work has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Griffith Review, Australian Poetry Journal, the Suburban Review and she contributed to the anthology Words to Sing the World Alive.

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Tell our children we assembled with thunder in our eyes Were named after a pink moon, were lunar dust Or the rambling rain, were madness soured into surrender Remind them oysters are best savoured with friends Tell them we were …

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summer loving

Summer’s gold hums on the horizon. Brothers and sisters, the oysters are in season. A promise then, we will fill our bellies tonight. We’ll be seduced in a tumble of kangaroo grass and yam daisies. Step softly into our circle. …

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Dromaius novaehollandiae

Dear Gugaamgan1 Too long – since your plumes traced the ocean in abundance Now, salted feathers fracture into splinters – a memory They named us dying and waged war on us, too Named us unworthy of their false flag Or …

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