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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Bio


Jennifer Chrystie has poems in The Best Australian Poems 2012, Blue Dog, Quadrant, Cordite, Poetrix, and The Weekend Australian amongst others. Her two collections, "Polishing the Silver"(2006), commended in the FAW Anne Elder Award, and "Weight of Snow"( 2013) were published by Ginninderra Press.


Jennifer Chrystie


 

Crow

A crow oils
its way
into my garden
sidewalks
through winter detritus
grey-eyes me
balefully
daring me
to retrieve the twig
it has filched
to nest
the new generation
of omens