Les Murray (1938 - )

Leslie Allan Murray, born 1938 in Nabiac, a village on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, was an Australian poet and essayist who in such meditative, lyrical poems as “Noonday Axeman” and “Sydney and the Bush” captured Australia's psychic and rural landscape as well as its mythic elements.

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First Line	Comments
Mid-9th century	1 Comment
All the air conditioners now slacken	1 Comment
Back, in my fifties, fatter that I was then,
Blats booted to blatant
Childhood sleeps in a verandah room
Everything except language	1 Comment
From the metal poppy
Humans are flown, or fall;
I am lived. I am died.
I starred that night, I shone:
In my aunt's house, the milk jug's beaded crochet cover
In the painting, I'm seated in a shield,
In the World language, sometimes called
Inside Ayers Rock is lit
It was built of things that must not mix:
Once played to attentive faces
Religions are poems. They concert
Scarlet as the cloth draped over a sword,
Sleeping-bagged in a duplex wing
Sprawl is the quality
That slim creek out of the sky
The lemon sunlight poured out far between things
The paddocks shave black
The stars are filtering through a tree
The word goes round Repins,	1 Comment
To go home and wear shorts forever
Uphill in Melbourne on a beautiful day
Us all on sore cement was we.
We who travel between worlds
We're driving across tableland
When yellow leaves the sky