Slight White Rime

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Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

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'wide brown land'
should not stand
unaccompanied
in the Arboretum.

Nearby should be
'slight white rime'
of Bribie Island sand,
the whitest you can see.

There's a need in a land
both White and Mackellar,
both Patrick and Dorothea,
for one for the cognoscenti.

Douglas Scotney

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Topic(s) of this poem: populism,elitism,art,nationality

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15.4.22. 'Wide brown land' is in Dorothea Mackellar's poem My Country. 'slight white rime' is at hthe end of Chapter 9 of Patrick White's novel The Aunt's Story. See my poem License To Rime for more on that.

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