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    Extravagance
    Extravagance
    Extravagance
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    Extravagance

    By Irene Wilkie

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    Extravagance is Irene Wilkie’s second collection. Throughout, she demonstrates a delight in the natural world and its inhabitants. At the same time, she treats, often with a wry humour, the more serious aspects of growing older, loss and environmental concerns. There is strong enquiry with empathy into the dilemma of humankind in

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGinninderra Press
    Release dateMay 11, 2017
    ISBN9781760413477
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      Extravagance - Irene Wilkie

      Extravagance

      Extravagance

      Irene Wilkie

      Ginninderra Press

      Contents

      Extravagance

      Acknowledgements

      Also by Irene Wilkie and published by Ginninderra Press

      Extravagance

      ISBN 978 1 76041 347 7

      Copyright © text Irene Wilkie 2013

      Cover image: road to culburra (detail) by lea hawkins

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2013

      Reprinted 2017

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide SA 5015

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      Extravagance

      Behind the Sun

      The world keeps rolling and you are a focus animate will

      spun from light that has gone before and you are alive with it

      but what you learned last century is invalid secure information

      replaced believable as video games

      When truth moves it grows new surrounds morphs into plasmas

      different from the original first second third kind complex

      or simple while the hole through the eye notes the changes converts them

      into like and unlikely

      slots them into boxes aligned against the vagaries of chance –

      a crow measures the distance between itself and a sleepy skink or

      the crow chooses a cockroach because the reckless thing moves too close

      on its glossy clockwork legs

      The void in the middle of understanding might never be filled –

      the soul loops around it under it licks the outer skin tests for validity

      but never identifies the shape of it yet pursues the purpose of seeking it out

      wherever it lies –

      perhaps in that place behind the sun where you watch comets arrive on time

      while errant meteors do not where you consider fear in the face of fire

      where you weigh the tangible against the nebulous and wonder

      if it matters

      You observe the death of a butterfly apply meaning to the last slow tremors

      of the dying antennae of wings still whole a quivering

      a silent

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