Hold those words as one beloved 
hold them close to your chest and let time slip
step outside time as one embraced 
in the arms of poems that hold you in their grip
be taken to that strange dimension 
where all is compressed and distilled
into new forms of truth turned this way and that 
by the bent of the poet’s will
reminded of who we truly are 
by words that by being will never lie
weep laugh and gasp in that suspension of time 
being far from everywhere yet ever closer by

with thanks to Marcella Polain (Ed) Australian Poetry Anthology Volume 11, Foreword II, Australian Poetry Ltd. 2024
 

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