Really enjoyed the small selection of Kevin Brophy's work in
Australian Poetry Since 1988, this quote made me see Australia differently
Quote:
The bike is a dream of low flying,
deep diving in air against the bluff of wind,
it teaches us hills and timing, slides us into curves
like a poem that, at last, fits this world.
Even the map of our country is the outline of a rider
crouched over a machine of wind and motion,
a dragon shadowed by its jockey
whose shape strains to hold in the spin
and dip of the planet’s waves, sand, ice
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