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This week’s poems – about a surprise blossoming under the shelter of foliage and a pure kind of laughter – are from SA poet Sally Hunter, author of the poetry collection The Structure of Light.

sheltered by foliage

eating an apple
reading a book
while perched and hiding
in the fork
of a stump
of a tree with foliage
all around

green leaves
dappling the book
sheltering the reader

I never knew
that it would be just nearby
behind the next tree stump
sheltered by foliage
that the two of us
would be together

new kind of laugh

a pure laugh

not laughing
that puts someone down
not laughing
that takes pleasure in misery
or finds grossness amusing

no
not laughing like that

a pure laugh
of delight opening

As well the poetry collection The Structure of Light, Sally Hunter is also author of the biography You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down: From Parkinson’s To A New Life With Deep Brain Stimulation. She has her BSc in Biology and MSc in Environmental Studies, and has prepared papers for the environment movement.

Readers’ original and unpublished poems up to 30 lines can be emailed, with postal address, to poetscorner@solsticemedia.com.au. A poetry book will be awarded to each contributor.

 

 

 

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