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    Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight
    Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight
    Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight
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    Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight

    By Samuel Wagan Watson

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    This is a striking debut volume by the winner of the Unaipon prize for unpublished Aboriginal writers. In a voice youthful, passionate and questioning, these poems reflect on growing up and on letting go; on urban dwellers in love and lust; and on the artist and his Murri community. The politics are unguarded and often amusing; and the language is playful, rhythmic and evocative. Ghosted by ancestors and muses, Watson's cityscape interweaves past and present.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2012
    ISBN9780702250415
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      Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight - Samuel Wagan Watson

      Dionysius.

      1

      of muse

      a prelude

      dropping a knife

      on one’s foot

      is nothing, like

      dropping tequilla

      on one’s tongue

      yet

      her floral dress

      begged me to...

      where as the night

      well,

      it just stayed outside

      magnesium girl

      I was kissing the girl

      with magnesium breath,

      all over me

      her burning hot magnesium

      ahh to touch

      the boundaries of delight

      and pain

      for you only hurt those you can love

      when lust becomes a mercenary

      for the weak hearted of humanity

      the magnesium breath

      inviting me to her bowl of splinters

      nothing but the frozen tears of her last love

      picked up in the rain

      and our relationship,

      a shrouded threesome,

      death always being

      that silent partner

      oh that magnesium girl

      with the strawberry hair

      how my black flesh and rye once lingered

      to be one with you

      my magnesium girl

      after 2am

      I wept along with the night

      two

      black

      hideous dimensions—

      myself and 3am

      releasing a crystal tide of bottled insanity

      while the shadows mocked

      our embrace

      and from then on

      I knew that forever

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