Jeltje Fanoy #38 Meaninglessness (Nyapanyapa Yunupingu) 3

I confused "meaninglessness"
with "nothingness", saw a gap


between what was left behind,
and what there is, now,


a migrant's perspective,
but she's still there,


pulling it all together,
her own narrative, alongside


th traditional dreamtime stories,
her bark painting heritage


public displays of empathy,
call it, whatever,


rhythms of being, mayilimiriw,
meaningless, what's felt,


intimately, in Yirrkala, Nyapanyapa
paints, she says, to please herself