How we see ourselves

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  • Published 20180501
  • ISBN: 9781925603323
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

There are two ways to be fooled.
One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Søren Kierkegaard

Australia: that image of you swinging in a hammock
with your turned down vowels & breezy Saturdays
sea foam & bleached sand, always armed with summer
ready for a spin bowl at a moment’s notice
With the flush of Eucalypt passion
and composition of complication
Asphalt veins across the continent
All roads leading home

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