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Well-Known Corners of the People

Covid Days

by
Gerardo Papalia

Our light

weeps

into curfewed ground.

Our breath

holds to

the day-less night.

Our heart

sighs for

the jaundiced morn.

These are the days

and ways of fright.

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Poetry on the Move is a major initiative of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra.

The University of Canberra acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce Campus is situated. 

We pay our respects to all Ngunnawal elders - past, present, and future - and to their continuing culture.

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