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Olivia McMahon


Olivia McMahon

Poems


Colours

East Timor, September 1999

Exchanging Words

The Return

Rice

The Sea the Sea


Colours

Olivia McMahon

Blue is a patch of sky.
Look up, you said, remember this for ever.

Green is the green
of the mosses in the forest,
soft and luminous,
that time we thought
would be our last.

And then yellow,
cruel yellow, covering the walls,
yellow curdling inside me
as I waited for your return.

But red - the shout in the dark -
red is the colour that drives us.


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