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Claire Potter

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The Appeal of Cranes

The Appeal of Cranes

The Appeal of Cranes

wing opportunity
      to see impressed      in a wall
held     in special —

      priests severed      wing shape marriage
but which      a couple
     dancing in frieze      facing winter
tempting monogamy        appropriate a wedding

a ritual      connected to costume      destroyed
     (one wing, one cattle horn      deposition of materials
           origins     ancestry      Division,      of birds

© 2008, Claire Potter
From: La Traductiere
Publisher: La Traductiere, Paris

Claire Potter

Claire Potter

(Australia, 1975)

“I describe my writing practice, and myself as a writer, as methodically itinerant – that is, my writing consists of structured periods of editing and researching interlaced with freer periods of writing and thinking. The way I think about my poetic writing involves three distinct, not unrelated approaches: academic, exploratory, poetic. Poetic is listed last because it is what arises after the...

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The Appeal of Cranes

wing opportunity
      to see impressed      in a wall
held     in special —

      priests severed      wing shape marriage
but which      a couple
     dancing in frieze      facing winter
tempting monogamy        appropriate a wedding

a ritual      connected to costume      destroyed
     (one wing, one cattle horn      deposition of materials
           origins     ancestry      Division,      of birds

From: La Traductiere

The Appeal of Cranes

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