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Title; Dedication; Contents; I am sitting in an exhibition room; alone; Somewhere beyond this room is the soundof children; At school I spent my time staring out ofthe window; Two girls linger by a triptych; The room is quiet again; This is my memory of my life; Bindawalla, binda, bindi, bindii; Li...

Every weekday - porridgeWhen I don't eat my porridge; Drip by precious drip, my life re-begins; I have a toy stroller, filled with dolls; One day my guardian comes to visit; I know many places well - some I can still smell; This place that I know well; My best friend Vicky and I were invited tothe m...

The tree-lined street where my guardian's lover livedSometimes we would knock and knock but the door stayed shut; Father gained custody of me and my siblings; Now I am fifteen, I am living with my father; My father is waltzing me around the lounge room; At seventeen I moved into the anonymity and so...

I have an obsession with polished bootsOnce, I became a Christian; There is so much I have lost, there are things I've never known about my people; When you walk this land do you notice the tracks of my people?; I am a Wiradjuri woman; I've heard it said I'm now at the invisibility age; What is your...

SMOKE ENCRYPTED WHISPERS - Samuel Wagan WatsonHOME - Larissa Behrendt - Winner of the 2002 David Unaipon Award.