Selected poems
Think back from the future of a bat
hear
by grace
beyond your range
as you hang
with leathered
folds
head
drawn
by gravity
brain
to bone
at night
your skin darker
than sky
Shiver
to build the bless
of a soul spun
in curled leaf
left since autumn
dry on the stem
(another is unstamped in the box
beneath the latest literary magazine)
my fingers
tentatively test it
for spinners and
for silk that
shivers with prey
Fresh and salt
A grey annunciation
of polished sky —
its steel
& the bay
— that intercept
of rain
on adolescent sweat.
Anne Elvey’s recent poetry publications include Kin and This Flesh That You Know. White on White is forthcoming from Cordite Books. Anne is managing editor of Plumwood Mountain and chief editor with Melbourne Poets Union. She holds honorary appointments at Monash University and University of Divinity where she is a member of the Centre for Research in Religion and Social Policy.