Judith Wright Light Poems

• 1. Sonnet
  Now let the draughtsman of my eyes be done
  marking the line of petal and of hill.
  Let the long commentary of the brain
  be silent. Evening and the earth are one,
  ...
• 2. Egrets
  Once as I travelled through a quiet evening,
  I saw a pool, jet-black and mirror-still.
  Beyond, the slender paperbarks stood crowding;
  each on its own white image looked its fill,
  ...
• 3. Niggers Leap, New England
  The eastward spurs tip backward from the sun.
  Nights runs an obscure tide round cape and bay
  and beats with boats of cloud up from the sea
  against this sheer and limelit granite head.
  ...
• 4. To A Child
  When I was a child I saw
  a burning bird in a tree.
  I see became I am,
  I am became I see.
  ...
• 5. Bullocky
  Beside his heavy-shouldered team
  thirsty with drought and chilled with rain,
  he weathered all the striding years
  till they ran widdershins in his brain:
  ...
• 6. Woman To Man
  The eyeless labourer in the night,
  the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,
  builds for its resurrection day---
  silent and swift and deep from sight
  ...
• 7. Woman To Child
  You who were darkness warmed my flesh
  where out of darkness rose the seed.
  Then all a world I made in me;
  all the world you hear and see
  ...
• 8. Naked Girl And Mirror
  This is not I. I had no body once-
  only what served my need to laugh and run
  and stare at stars and tentatively dance
  on the fringe of foam and wave and sand and sun.
  ...
• 9. Metho Drinker
  Under the death of winter's leaves he lies
  who cried to Nothing and the terrible night
  to be his home and bread. 'O take from me
  the weight and waterfall ceaseless Time
  ...

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