Joanna Walkden Harris & Pete Spence


Perched Cormorant.
 
24 hours in eternity was enough
no fish jumping in the tepidity
pied cormorant skims for lunch
catching shallows as a choppy
westerly lingers blowing along
looking for a plateau to relax

it's all done with intention on 
and in reflection under a ripe 
sunset how orange is that 
perched over the plateau 
mirroring itself in the lax waters 
the wings held out to dry

Joanna Walkden Harris is a photographer/printmaker/poet born in Melbourne in 1950.

Pete Spence was born in 1946. He is a poet, visual poet, editor, and filmmaker, and has worked in various jobs to cover the ongoing deficit. A collection of his visual poetry, 5 X Y, was published last year by Red Fox Press as part of the C'est Mon Dada series.

 
 

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