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Lionel Fogarty

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Nightmare

Nightmare

Nightmare

Stain our tears
               in those eyes of mine
               Forward in wind
               They shot
               Hands Down
                              the long black barrel
                                         gun
Jungle-green ripened
               in red
                             Snake
                             Nightmare path.

© 1978, Lionel Fogarty
From: Kargun
Publisher: Cheryl Buchanan, North Brisbane

Lionel Fogarty

Lionel Fogarty

(Australia, 1958)

Lionel Fogarty is one of the best known contemporary Aboriginal Australian writers. For some thirty years, he has been excavating a space in which his community and culture is recuperated and asserted, while also subverting and destabilising dominant discourses, both political and poetic. A Yugambeh man, Fogarty was born on Wakka Wakka land in South Western Queensland near Murgon on a ‘punishme...

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Nightmare

Stain our tears
               in those eyes of mine
               Forward in wind
               They shot
               Hands Down
                              the long black barrel
                                         gun
Jungle-green ripened
               in red
                             Snake
                             Nightmare path.

From: Kargun

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