Judith Wright Wind Poems

• 1. Blue Arab
  The small blue Arab stallion dances on the hill
  like a glancing breaker, like a storm rearing in the sky,
  In his prick-ears,the wind, that wanderer and spy,
  sings of the dunes of Arabia, lion-coloured still.
  ...
• 2. 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.
  ...
• 3. The Sisters
  In the vine-shadows on the veranda;
  under the yellow leaves, in the cooling sun,
  sit two sisters. Their slow voices run
  like little winter creeks, dwindled by frost and wind,
  ...
• 4. Train Journey
  Glassed with cold sleep and dazzled by the moon,
  out of the confused hammering dark of the train
  I looked and saw under the moon's cold sheet
  your delicate dry breasts, country that built my heart;
  ...
• 5. The Surfer
  He thrust his joy against the weight of the sea;
  climbed through, slid under those long banks of
  foam--
  (hawthorn hedges in spring, thorns in the face stinging).
  ...
• 6. The Killer
  The day was clear as fire,
  the birds sang frail as glass,
  when thirsty I came to the creek
  and fell by its side in the grass.
  ...
• 7. The Bull
  In the olive darkness of the sally-trees
  silently moved the air from night to day.
  The summer-grass was thick with honey daisies
  where he, a curled god, a red Jupiter,
  ...
• 8. The Old Prison
  The rows of cells are unroofed,
  a flute for the wind's mouth,
  who comes with a breath of ice
  from the blue caves of the south.
  ...

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