Annulus

Abstract

Annulus Anne Elvey (bio) after Annulus 2007, by Ken Unsworth, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin Lighter than air the stones!Guyed by tethers of wirethey are a handful of bones. Breath catches at cone'stense lines–at their lie:lighter than air are stones! My sympathy binds with the stonesheld against gravity's sigh.They are a handful of bones. A porous skeleton moansand burst of an elegant choirechoes the air of the stones. No visit an old visit clones.Grasses grow up and they dryunder this handful of bones. Rocks float like the unknownover earth–an echo of sky.The air may be lighter than stones.I embrace a handful of bones [End Page 251] Anne Elvey Anne Elvey lives on Bunurong (Boonwurrung) Country in Seaford, Victoria. She is the author of Obligations of Voice (Recent Work Press, 2021), On arrivals of breath (Poetica Christi Press, 2019), White on White (Cordite Books, 2018), and Kin (Five Islands Press, 2014). Kin was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. Other recent publications include Cloud Climbers Declarations through Images and Words for a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace (edited by Elvey, with artwork by William Kelly and Benjamin McKeown, Palaver Press, 2021). Her new poetry collection, Leaf and Tumble, focusing on plants, is forthcoming from Liquid Amber Press. Copyright © 2022 Wayne State University Press