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| Les Murray |
Murray has said that he has a "vital interest in giving utterance and form to hitherto unexpressed elements of Australian mind and character" while drawing inspiration from "Australian landscape, folklore, history, war, technology, deserts." ... More > |
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| Photographing Aspirations
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by Les Murray |
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Fume-glossed, unbearably shrill,
this car is dilated with a glaze
that will vanish before standstill—
and here's the youth swimming in space
above his whiplash motorcycle:
quadriplegia shows him its propped face—
after, he begged video scenes
not display his soaking jeans,
urine that leathers would have hidden
and the drag cars have engines on their engines. |
Copyright © 2007 by Les Murray. Reprinted from The Biplane Houses with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. For more on FSG's poets, visit www.fsgpoetry.com |
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