Name: The Hacking River
Duration: P00H03M13S
Description: published in local by Anna Couani 2021 Flying Islands Press

The Hacking River

by Anna Couani

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published in local by Anna Couani 2021 Flying Islands Press

lyrics

That spot
on the Hacking River
so beautiful in memory
not as great now
with its kerbs
and gutters

then
the banks were loose
grass grew into the water
you slid in
unafraid of snakes, spiders, eels
snags, no problem
the way mud felt
between the toes

the river was murky beautiful
so deep green
shaded
in the days of truck inner tubes
hanging from branches
when the abject was beautiful

parents minded their own business
only rushed in
if we were drowning
or fatally injured
and
there were injuries
even bad people
we sucked it up

lying there
in the lushness
looking up into the tall trees
cathedral-like
like so many people
before us
but unknown to us

always that lingering emptiness
where the hell are they?
why did they leave this paradise?

and the sad car park
at the end of the day

leaving behind the glowing
green clearing
where we got lost
in the grass

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released February 12, 2024
composition: Anna Couani
vocal: Elizabeth Slottje
sound engineer: James Fuller

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Anna Couani Sydney, Australia

Anna Couani is a writer and visual artist who runs The Shop Gallery in Glebe, Sydney Australia with her husband sculptor Hilik Mirankar. Her visual art can be viewed at sesquitria.blogspot.com

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