exhibited at creative
photography centre
poemography exhibition 2004
"Heirlooms"
Father tells me Mother was a murderer long before he took
fate into his own hands.
He says that when she poisoned his poetry it nearly killed him.
He claims she'd
lace her words with arsenic and string them together
carefully like they were delicate pearls of wisdom.
He would wake to
find them wound around his throat, drawn just tight
enough to tint his skin violet.
Her timing was so
precise, there's no doubt in his mind that she attempted
to kill what life there was left in him.
Poem: Jade Burstall
Photo: John de Lombardo
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John de Lombardo
Photography
30 poets + 30 photographers = poemography
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release
poemography was a collaborative project
between the byron bay writers centre
and the creative photography centre
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