Photo of a sculpture of a multi-headed scrub turkey displayed in an art gallery. The sculpture is covered in black, feather-like textures with intricate mosaic type detailing, and yellow, red and black colouring.

New ekphrastic poem in Cordite

I’m so thrilled to have a new ekphrastic poem in Cordite’s ‘Space’ issue, with thanks to guest editor Alicia Sometimes. 

‘focused, unfurling’ is after Jane du Rand’s Thriving: Brisbane Bush Turkeys, and was written during a session of Ekphrastic Writing Club at Museum of Brisbane in 2023.

Screen shot of a poem with text that reads, ‘cowl of yellow necklaces flecked in summer's gold. there's negative space of me you'll never see - my feathers unfurling like mushroom's fanned underside. over shadowed hill of rotting moundtop, orange reddens today's busy sunset. i'm not actually a bird. call me: bald crown, garden demolisher, pitchfork feet. call me: focused not flightless. watch me: as trained eye blackens, revolves and hones to water-washed sky. there's something beyond the clouds do you see it?’
Photo of a sculpture of a multi-headed scrub turkey displayed in an art gallery. The sculpture is covered in black, feather-like textures with intricate mosaic type detailing, and yellow, red and black colouring.

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