This was inspired by memories of a kite festival in India which always has some fatalities. The picture is of the coast coming up to Wollongong from Sydney.
'Die' works for me, Sarah. I live down that way (in W'gong); I know the view intimately - your image has displaced the kites in my mind. That's intense. (People have died off Bald Hill, too.) I really like the way it works as the airborne poetic equivalent of a roadside memorial....really, really good.
This was inspired by memories of a kite festival in India which always has some fatalities. The picture is of the coast coming up to Wollongong from Sydney.
ReplyDeleteWaouh I love this one!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I worried about the 'die' on the end a lot. But unfortunately ...
ReplyDelete'Die' works for me, Sarah. I live down that way (in W'gong); I know the view intimately - your image has displaced the kites in my mind. That's intense. (People have died off Bald Hill, too.) I really like the way it works as the airborne poetic equivalent of a roadside memorial....really, really good.
ReplyDeleteThank you Efi!
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