Judith Wright
Judith Wright
(1915 - 2000 / New South Wales / Australia)
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All Things Conspire - Poem by Judith Wright
All things conspire to hold me from you –
even my love,
since that would mask you and unname you
till merely woman and man we live.
All men wear arms against the rebel –
and they are wise,
since the sound world they know and stable
is eaten away by lovers’ eyes.
All things conspire to stand between us –
even you and I,
who still command us, still unjoin us,
and drive us forward till we die.
Not till those fiery ghosts are laid
shall we be one.
Till then, they whet our double blade
and use the turning world for stone.
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Poem Submitted: Saturday, March 27, 2010
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