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The road turned out to be a cul-de-sac;
stopped like a lost intention at the gate
and never crossed the mountains to the coast.
But they stayed on. Years grew like grass and leaves
across the half-erased and dubious track
until one day they knew the plans were lost,
the blue-print for the bridge was out of date,
and now their orchards never would be planted.
The saplings sprouted slyly; day by day
the bush moved one step nearer, wondering when.
The polished parlour grew distrait and haunted
where Millie, Lucy, John each night at ten
wound the gilt clock that leaked the year away.
The pianola – oh, listen to the mocking-bird –
wavers on Sundays and has lost a note.
The wrinkled ewes snatch pansies through the fence
and stare with shallow eyes into the garden
where Lucy shrivels waiting for a word,
and Millie’s cameos loosen round her throat.
The bush comes near, the ranges grow immense.
Feeding the lambs deserted in early spring
Lucy looked up and saw the stockman’s eye
telling her she was cracked and old.
 The wall
groans in the night and settles more awry.
O how they lie awake. Their thoughts go fluttering
from room to room like moths: “Millie, are you awake?”
“Oh John, I have been dreaming.” “Lucy, do you cry?”
– meet tentative as moths. Antennae stroke a wing.
“There is nothing to be afraid of. Nothing at all.”
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Judith Wright

Judith Wright

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