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Tasmanian Anglican

September 2003

 

 

 

cover image - Luminous Bodies

 

Last Days Of Winter

by James Charlton

 

 

She bends to aerate damp earth.
He scissors the chives' first shoots.
Between them, breath made visible.
Within them, silence, deep as Eden.

James Charlton's book Luminous Bodies (Montpelier Press) won equal second prize in last year's national awards for a first book of poetry. James is the poetry editor of the literary quarterly Island.