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House and Home, 1944

House and Home, 1944

House and Home, 1944

On the side verandah Mrs— takes another slice of
letting herself go. Flyscreens make the kindest shade.
They are all gone to history. Paddocks walk about the house.
The house is still in the family. Memory is
small-handed creatures, they unravel shadows down
corridors, in drifting rooms. A neighbour calls at the door.
How politely it comes in, the future—
padding across the boards in soft-soled shoes
till her armchair presides over dunes and swales—

© 2007, Lisa Gorton
From: Press Release
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing, Artamon, NSW

Lisa Gorton

Lisa Gorton

(Australia, 1972)

Lisa Gorton writes poetry, essays and fiction. Born in Melbourne, she studied at the universities of Melbourne and Oxford. At Oxford, with the support of a Rhodes Scholarship, she completed a master's in Renaissance Literature and a doctorate on John Donne’s poetry and prose. After fifteen years living in different places – Ireland, England, South Africa, and, in Australia, Sydney, Lismore an...

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House and Home, 1944

On the side verandah Mrs— takes another slice of
letting herself go. Flyscreens make the kindest shade.
They are all gone to history. Paddocks walk about the house.
The house is still in the family. Memory is
small-handed creatures, they unravel shadows down
corridors, in drifting rooms. A neighbour calls at the door.
How politely it comes in, the future—
padding across the boards in soft-soled shoes
till her armchair presides over dunes and swales—

From: Press Release

House and Home, 1944

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