The Prodigal single work   poetry   "Reeds stuck to her unwashed hair"
Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 The Prodigal
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Meanjin Online 2023 25828445 2023 periodical issue 2023
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 82 no. 1 Autumn 2023 26180732 2023 periodical issue 'Light, air and the autumn wind. Good drying weather. Ethics and history and peace and war and the laundry. Taking stock. Abandoned cities, lost children, political legacies emptied of all honour. 孝弟也者、其为仁之本与. How we commemorate, and what we forget. The cost of education, the cost of living, the costs of doing nothing. Insects, birds, bulls, deer, saplings, forests, the Great Barrier Reef. Ethical beekeeping, hydrogeology, the second person. Ruin porn and inspiration porn. Solarpunk and Chengyu and the Argonauts. Housing and home, love and Metta, class and compassion. Understanding where it is that we exist when we're gathering our forces. Let's get our house in order—and prepare for what comes next.' 

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    2023
    pg. 182
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