An amazing story

     

An amazing story read quietly inside then said out loud for all to hear

just a whitefella who’s learned to listen

that’s all

 

we belong to this story

and it belongs to us

 

it became part of my family’s dreaming

like

Inuit short stories

nineteenth – century anti-colonial novellas

Native American chants

and desert poetry

 

(source:  Riding the Black Cockatoo, by John Danalis)