From The Sticks Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

From The Sticks

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Beyond where sticks make a puzzle of space
and space makes sense of sticks,
though you can't see between them for yourself,
lies the desert
with nothing,
let alone you,
between where you were before
and where you should be at least once more.

Thursday, April 3, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: philosophy
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
'the sticks' are way out in the country where Australian trees and bushes and shrubs predominate
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Danny Draper 05 April 2014

This piece provides a sense of connectedness and simultaneously an isolation that both beckons and repells, to belong but to escape, to be in such country and to be overwhelmed being connected without belonging, but attracted by an ethereal calling that belies its vast foreboding.

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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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