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Funeral in Fiji
A Funeral in Fiji It is a stifling day. We swelter in packed pews in the echoing church, until a cold rain hammers on the iron roof, and a draft...
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- 1391 reads
Artists
Artists The tools of their art are spread on the ground: the ochres, the reeds chewed to a brushpoint, the grinding stones - only the glue they use...
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- 1125 reads
D: Wallaby and Dogs
Wallaby And Dogs I was moving water-smooth stones to shape a dam when the despairing wallaby crashed by our noses into the water, the half-Alsatian...
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Wild Dogs
Wild Dogs Because I have heard the wild dogs in the night, up there on the Daly in the empty North, these days I itch with a vague dissatisfaction:...
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The Cuvu Villagers take Communion
The Cuvu Villagers Take Communion for David Makutu Vosailagi Five minutes into the Fijian sermon and my mind wanders: I find myself looking at the...
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- 988 reads
Rain at Gunn Point
Rain at Gunn Point It is raining at Gunn Point: from Arnhem Land the monsoon clouds have come wallowing to the west - and now they hang weeping on...
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- 946 reads
Children's Python
Children's Python She is no friend of mine, but we have reached a modus vivendi: : she will not startle me again at night when I am outside in the...
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Whoops!
I've gone and put some Arsenic On my steak and kidney pie And accidentally swallowed it So now I'm going to die. I thought that it was Parmesan I...
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JACK - PRETTY JACK
ANOTHER OLD FAIRY-TALE UPDATED
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