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 ~: POETRY / MODERN :~  The Blood Dance by Rebecca Laffar-Smith they washed away the sins of white men in the blood of the snake that hissed and danced the corroboree with the darkness gaping smiles with bloodied teeth and dirty feet doused in roo dung stamped into the rusty earth the sun refused to shine hiding them in the shadows from the whites whose eyes failed without the light they scurried and huddled in tents out of the downpour and prayed to an abandoned God for bullets, stakes and courage to face the spears at dawn dead on their bunks a retribution - a celebration taken from their sleep to feed the land silenced are their children the dance tells the story to the pounding rains to the steady beat skin on bone struck hard in the lingering dreamtime |
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