1. The lights are off. The tree in the front garden is dead, but the one out the back is not. Dripping birch branches glisten in the wet dark. The power lines and commission flats are silhouetted on blue-black sky. Rain hammers on the roof. The dog sulks, curled up in the corner of the… Continue reading In the key of E minor
Month: June 2009
Inheritance
What troubles me most is an attitude of mind that could come to prevail amongst white Australians: a feeling of irritation apparently based on a conviction that we are saddled with the responsibility for problems not really of our making, and by their nature probably insoluble. (W.E.H. Stanner, 1978) It?s the evening of Tuesday, February… Continue reading Inheritance