high on a branch
on a soaring crown
in a grove of trees between
sunbeam starburst leaves
that twists and turns
but goes nowhere
kookaburras canoodling
far above the middle of
everything that is all
cicadas calling to prayer
the crash of a branch
in the out there somewhere
a memory infused in cells
falling to earth
immersed engorged dispersed
echo of all that is everything
cycling through dirt to rise
to a branch on a soaring crown
in a grove of trees somewhere
in the
out
there
© Anne Casey, selected for inclusion in the Spirit of Nature poetry and art exhibition in Sydney, 2018, first published in the Australian Poetry Collaboration, received Honourable Mention in the 45th New Millennium Writing Awards 2018 (USA)
Picture 10796998, painting by Kay Mullen, 1997, image copyright Mary Evans / Medici
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Originally from the west of Ireland and living in Sydney, Anne Casey is author of five critically acclaimed poetry collections. A journalist and legal author for 30 years, her work is widely published internationally, ranking in The Irish Times‘ Most Read. Anne has won literary awards in Ireland, Australia, the UK, the USA, Canada, Hong Kong, India and Lebanon, most recently American Writers Review 2021 and the Henry Lawson Prize 2022. She is the recipient of an Australian Government scholarship and a bursary for her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney where she researches and teaches.   anne-casey.com  @1annecasey
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