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Monday, January 13, 2003

The Sleepout Comments

Rating: ★3.0

Childhood sleeps in a verandah room
in an iron bed close to the wall
where the winter over the railing
swelled the blind on its timber boom
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Michael Walker 31 July 2019

I can't make much of 'Childhood sleeps'. Why not, ' the child sleeps'. Use of the Australian word, 'billabong' is effective, but the poem as a whole just rambles without anything memorable in it, as far as I can see.

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