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This article explores how intentions of, and invitations to, decolonization are implicated in the elaboration and transformation of orality, storytelling, and of the text in Aboriginal poetry. It examines the strategies deployed when the text lives on the page and leaves the page through performance, and pays particular attention to poems written by Romaine Moreton and Kerry Reed-Gilbert.