On the Edge
by MARILYN HUMBERT It’s a short walk from the carpark through cypress and ironbarks to the huddle of granite monoliths time worn like old people. Above me layers of clouds scud in opposite directions waiting for a storm. My steps…
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Benediction
by MARILYN HUMBERT Red rock bleeds into cliffs staining a serpentine path to the gap where the white sand creek bed gleams, we sit on the rim legs crossed our voices raised in song. Grace notes mingle with pollen and…
Marilyn Humbert
from Kata Tjuta’s red domed monoliths the wind laments across desert plains to solitary Uluru dawn breaks splashing the shore I collect shells and sea glass, wonder at their journeys at his grave beside fresh dug earth I’m surrounded by…
Marilyn Humbert
Marilyn Humbert lives on Darug and GuriNgai land in Berowra, NSW. Her tanka and haiku appear in many international and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions, also being published in anthologies, journals and online.…