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English translation of first line: On the crocodile skin of the earth are cracks and features. Stones
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Poem in five parts, numbered in roman numerals.
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Part IV of the poem includes within it a titled poem, 'Wyznanie' (Avowal).
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The poem refers (briefly in English) to 'Tharangalk, land beyond the sky'. Alfred William Howitt's The Native Tribes of South-East Australia (1904), which Marek might conceivably have come across, discusses the concept of 'Tharangalk-bek' (p. 433), 'a sky country' of 'the Wurunjerri' people.
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The poem is narrated in a voice that seems to be the poet's own, referring to experiences working in hospitals, and living in an unnamed Australian city. The second untitled poem in the sequence is narrated by a group of Aboriginal people.
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