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For Reconciliation Week - Aboriginal Lionel D Fogarty's - “Am I”

I heard a roo cry
Am I hearing attendants
to my hearts
Am we lovin’ in these days
Am I sadden these nights
Forever it possess you man
something must tell
Am I me or you am us.

"this is how I express my dreaming.” pic.twitter.com/9AATViCl95

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) June 3, 2020

'Born in 1958 on Wakka Wakka land in South Western Queensland, Fogarty’s poetry deploys language in innovative and disruptive ways and has 
pioneered a new space of Aboriginal writing: “I see words beyond any acceptable meaning,” he explains, “this is how I express my dreaming.” His poem “Am I,” for example, concludes with the cry of a kangaroo that presages the collapse of boundaries between self and other.'      Source: Poetry Foundation