hutt 0.4
  hutt - halong bay, vietnam
 
 
Laurie Duggan’s eleventh book of poetry, Mangroves, was published in 2003 by University of Queensland Press.

 

 
   
laurie duggan - october 27th
A shadow script
lies beneath this one
the face a decade presents
or a dynasty.

It is rubble already
and always was,
the ‘evidence’ that lacks
coherence:

sunlight on a wall,
broken hieroglyphs
for war or worlds,
a river flowing unnoticed.