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AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS & WRITERS FOR PEACE
THE LAWS OF PEACE by MTC Cronin

[Above] Photo of MTC Cronin by Jeanette Cronin, 1998.

MTC Cronin


THE LAWS OF PEACE

for Richard de Bury
Bishop of Durham, bn January 24, 1287


From books come forth
the laws of peace,
also war, and the dead
as if they were alive.

The questions have been allowed to grow.
A single one is fixed
as the skyline and another is humanity
waving a new antennae.
The walls of the house
are a bird's wing.
They are ambitious with the nest,
becoming it.
The floors are a single floor
with all beneath it, even walking,
even life.
Blue is here, the blue that precedes
catastrophe, that comes after,
capsizing death.

The cathedral falls like a petal
to earth.
Stone practises what
can only be contradicted in words.

We are in the biggest bubble
in the universe.
When we draw, we draw
as if it will never burst.

Love is in the outline we make.

About the Poet MTC Cronin

MTC Cronin has been published in over 100 different journals, newspapers and anthologies (also on tapes and CD's) in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the UK, Canada and the USA. the world beyond the fig, was shortlisted for the CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 1999; Everything Holy, was shortlisted for the Jessie Litchfield Award for Literature 1997; the Age Poetry Book of the Year 1999; the Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, Qld Premier's Literary Awards 1999; the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2000; and commended in the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry 1999; After being employed for most of the decade of the nineties in law, she has in recent years begun teaching literature and creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney, in the Department of Writing, Social & Cultural Studies. A book of love poems My Lover's Back, is due out with University of Queensland Press in 2002.
   [Above] Photo of MTC Cronin by Jeanette Cronin, 1998.

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