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
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