Destiny Deacon
Travelling from the series / aus der Serie Oz, 1998
Bubble jet print from Polaroid photograph /
Bubble-Jet-Print einer Polaroid-Fotografie
58 × 28.5 cm
Romaine Moreton
Poems from a Homeland /
Gedichte aus einem Heimatland
Romaine Moreton
Poems from a Homeland
Follow the Sun
If there is a poem
Sitting here
In my chest
May it irrigate
Populate
Intention
If there is a story
Let it wander
Through this being
Emerge into the land
Seeing
Let the water flow
Rush like blood
A great flood eternal
Journal the passage
The passing
Hold and fasten
Brace yourself
With faith
Do not loosen the grip
Or slip
Into the ravaging words
Of disbelievers
Do not believe
In invasion
Through persuasion
Politic rhetoric
Is warfare
Declare faith
In the old ones
Do not come undone
Follow the sun
Wander deserts
Swim the river
Deliver yourself
Take survivors
With you
Have integrity
Without brevity
It is a long road
But we walked from the top
To the end
Then back again
Ceremonial style
Keep Songlines alive
Sing in circles
Circle all beginning
No end
Defend your body
Like nobody else
Walk in sovereignty
Soles upon the land
Stand like the old people
The steeple, the tree
Worship the divine
If there is a poem sitting here
May it wander the land like a story
Shed light into this silence
Shatter this violence
Let our homes be filled with the light and hope
Of every yesteryear