Look at those twins,
so granite!
Protruding through
the long grass whispers.
Look at them!
Inviting goannas
to sleep on their
sun spotted rockiness.
Look at them!
Angled like eyebrows
above the face of the creek
whose watery mouth
never stops to greet them.
Look at them!
Challenging me
from the other side
of the water
to sit on them.
Or to stand
arms outstretched
barefoot
in the wind-swept air.
Look at them!
Bio
Elizabeth Lish Å kec writes poetry, plays, short stories, comedy and songs for adults and children. She has two chapbooks Butterflies of New Dawn 1995 & Leather Skin, skecteXt publishing 2002 and one poetry collection with spine Breath published by Luckner Press 2014 (with more in the works) and has been published in various anthologies worldwide.
Lish has taught poetry, creative writing and theatre workshops for The Victorian Writers Centre, CERES, Overload Poetry Festival, SPAN Community House and was part of the video education series Picking Poetry Apart with Dorothy Porter among others. Lish is the convener of Poetryspective in Australia.