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Esther Creek
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-writes poetry
-looks at plants
-farms in Western Australia
-bumps into things
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Layered.
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A close up of the smooth bark of a gum tree with red sap staining where it has seeped from a broken branch. (poem on white background) Layered The years have built up on me like layers of paint on a canvas. Sometimes I don't recognise a past version of myself, but we're all here. I carry in me every history I ever wrote and we are all beautiful. Beneath the painted landscape run the harsh grooves and dark hues of the self who chose how she would end us, but didn't. Deeper still flow the textures of the one who tried to empty us out, make us a hollow, hallowed thing. We hold space for all her holy earnestness, her hope. The very first strokes against the canvas are the wonder of a child: she is here too and I will find her, hold her. But today I hold the brush, honouring the shapes and shades of all my selves, empowered now to choose what kind of masterpiece we might yet become. Close up of smoothly textured and cracked bark, beige, brown and yellow colours, with white space to the right of the photo. A close up of a deep crack in the side of a tree. The outer bark is out of focus, creamy with red tints, while the crack shows shards of deep red-brown timber tearing away from each other deep inside.
December 2, 2024 at 2:21 AM