Country

Here country has

a heart of stone

roots are its veins

skins of shrubs, of paperbarks,

of dry sharp grass.

Here Country has

emerald green watery blood

an intimate cerulean skies mood

deep time etched

on its body landscape.

Kakadu NP. July 2023

I acknowledge the traditional owners of the Kakadu national park lands, the Bininj and the Mungguy people and its leaders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded. Like millions of Australians I accept the Uluru Statement of the Heart and YES I support the Voice.