Koala Bear, years rivulets
haunt Bunyip Bluegum of
the page, like ‘Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep?’ shove
anthropomorphic animals
into paged minds, extinct
critters of yesterday years, for
wind-ups as indistinct.
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Melinda Jane, known as The Poet Mj, is living in Mel’s Wonderland under the southern cross and gum trees of an Island that floats down under some call Australia. A place which gives space within and upon this wide brown land of floods, droughts, fires and beasts that hop. Hopping is a must here as many stand on one leg. Mj performs the spoken word at festivals, fringe, art galleries and small gatherings. A writer of published children’s books, prose, play, short stories, poetry and song lyrics.
Image from Norman Lindsay’s The Magic Pudding (1918).
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