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

Bio


Jennifer Chrystie has poems in The Best Australian Poems 2012, Quadrant, Cordite 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


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Meditation

Waiting in queues
I feel tension coiled
in those around me

the twitching
the shuffling
the clock-watching

I meditate on chaos
and the unpredictability
of events

We are not to blame
for Interrupting
our straight paths

There are secrets
to be buried tenderly
in soft earth

while breathing in
particles of the dead