mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson

there are fish and long stories living swimming below the rocks and clay pan places the ancestors placed precious in the time when the soft world became firm static electricity in the air and the hum of time unspooling across the land there's colour spread out across the sky soft moving telling us hard moving things and secrets to come up shore to shore up story trace the line of country where the truth comes dripping splashing leaking as it always will and always must as the darkness of shadow will leak out to reveal the shape of the truth everytime to alltime where the light spreads these are not spill marks but tide rushing in JAZZ MONEY Burrum Heads Boodjamulla Lawn Hill Gorge 94