From Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Alexis Wright to Ali Cobby Eckermann and Kerry Reed-Gilbert, poetry can show us the collective power of care
This is not unprecedented.
Not the presence of a new disease. Not the enforced social measures that fragment how we interact, and who with. Not the laying to waste of the environment. Not the strategies of triage, and stratified disposability of human lives.
Related: Hey, Ancestor! by Alexis Wright
There are skinny old hungry foxes having Maccas with the lot for early Australia day breakfast.
And there is ant out there labouring in the dirt under the wings of a dead butterfly, taken it on a journey that seems to take forever, a journey as great as travelling around the world to the butterflies cemetery.
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