Author's note: a cento from Margaret Scott’s ‘In Tasmania’, Dorothy Porter’s ‘Help! Another Day!’, Lesbia Harford’s
‘Day’s End’, Rhyll McMaster’s ‘The Last Promise’, Dorothy Hewett’s ‘[Time will end]’, Katherine
Gallagher’s ‘Winter Hyacinths’, Dipti Saravanamuttu’s ‘Prayer’, Nicolette Stasko’s ‘Dancing Toward
What End’, Dorothy Porter’s ‘The jellyfish’, Rosemary Dobson’s ‘In My End Is My Beginning’, Judith
Rodriguez’s ‘Nasturtium regardless’, Dorothy Porter’s ‘The Flashing Mountain’, Katherine Gallagher’s
‘April Summer Fever’, Chris Mansell’s ‘Modern Tanka’