Peter Minter, an award-winning poet, editor and scholar, lectures in Indigenous studies and poetics at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney. His poetry collections include blue grass, Empty Texas and Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin.
Under the dim grey sky of an early evening
in September, that mountain sky
when air rests across the surface of the world
and strays on the body like cold,
...
You enter the suburbs,
drive down through the fair blue distance
swelling at the road's end,
the luminous window
...
When you walk out
into the derangement of earliest morning,
too early, for the stars
still examine you and trees, unencumbered
...
The world does not know it offers nothing.
I am meant to see a white shirt,
whale bone buttons flashing under lights,
the advice of a lissom woman
...