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Thylazine: The Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature                                                                                                                                     #8/thyla8k-jp AUSTRALIAN POETS SERIES 8 The Poetry of Joyce Parkes Selected by Coral Hull [Above] Photo of Joyce Parkes by Jody Driscoll, 2002. I Approaching Mount Victoria I Wheat Fields I Miner miens I Territory's Edge I Iridian arms I Darwin, N.T. I Fish and Firewood I Approaching Mount Victoria Through Blacktown, to the Blue Mountains, a long ascent, a distant driver's bent. When climbing fleets to snow- peaks spin on silken roads, some halted wheels repeat rain's recurring floods and flow. Wheat Fields (For G.S.) Golden strands of pollen wheat, light and softly flowing Swaying, rocking, whispering or still, whatever stems will. Miner miens A grit, with strands of green, light against the ore. Iron's jorum waters seem to move, the hills were here in ample floors. Paths and airstrips stretch to re-align winding roads on island's compound mines, making tracts a hive of saline boroughs, where the land of sand and stone softly motions miner's cup. Published in Westerly (Australia). Territory's Edge Looking from a quiet jetty, vessels, linking breakers to trees - where, further on, families forego shading branches, to redefine the sea. Published in Sydney Morning Herald (Australia). Iridian arms Expanses breaking towards the ocean in golden, mauve to blue - fusing with granules rounder than the eye could muster in hours of cascading hues. Who, writing on past nine, would fare well, without recording aspects of Mindil Beach around dawn? Published in Fremantle Arts Review (Australia), Pen International (England) and It's A Woman's World (PEN-Germany). Darwin, N.T. (For J.S.H.) Frontiers held by Casuarinas, near tidal rims and liquid jade. Waters searing silt to sorrow, East-West oceans' roars and waves. Published in the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre Newsletter (Australia). Fish and Firewood (For A.V.) A firewood load carried home lit to extend what has grown. Fish, taken from their habitats, stabbed, thrown, could keep my heart hale to a degree. Fish and firewood, free, to pulse's swing - which is gong if I am young, if I have access to land and water, if I could for- get the pain all fish feel. About the Poet Joyce Parkes Joyce Parkes has published poetry in the following; Canberra Times, ACT; Lip-Service, WA; Breakaway, WA; Artlook, WA; POETRY Australia, NSW; Fling!, Vic.; The Weekend Australian, NSW; Overland, Vic; Sepia, England; Walker on the Top Rail, WA; Westerly, WA; Patterns, WA; Fremantle Arts Review, WA; Wordhord, WA; Celebrations, WA; The Road of Poems and Borders, Finland; (M)other Tongues, Canada; The Sydney Morning Herald, NSW; The Phoenix Review, ACT; The Midland Reporter, WA; Social Images, ACT; Stet, SA; Pen International, England; Kalla Yeedip Arts, WA; The Western Review, WA; The Western Word, WA; The New England Review, NSW; PEN-Perth, WA; It's a Woman's World, PEN Germany; Thylazine's Poets for Peace Project, N.T.; Alison Croggon's Poets Against War; WA; m-a-g/, USA; The Journal, of the Australian Irish Heritage Association, WA.    [Above] Photo of Joyce Parkes by Jody Driscoll, 2002. I Next I Back I Exit I Thylazine No.8 (September, 2003)