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Old prison Lyrics by Judith Wright

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The rows of cells are unroofed,
a flute for the wind's mouth,
who comes with a breath of ice
from the blue caves of the south.
O dark and fierce day:
the wind like an angry bee
hunts for the black honey
in the pits of the hollow sea.
Waves of shadow wash
the empty shell bone-bare,
and like a bone it sings
a bitter song of air.
Who built and laboured here?
The wind and the sea say
Their cold nest is broken
and they are blown away
They did not breed nor love,
each in his cell alone
cried as the wind now cries
through this flute of stone.
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Judith Wright

Judith Wright

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