I was delighted to get the latest issue of ‘Countdown’ edition of The School Magazine, where my poem Owl, Hunting, has been published, illustrated by the fabulous Marjorie Crosby-Fairall. And Marjorie’s illustration is also on the cover of the magazine, which is great!
I wrote this poem on a visit to my father’s place in the green, wooded countryside of south-west France. One night I woke to hear an owl hooting close by. Listening to the lonely, evocative sound, and imagining the night scene outside, the poem just jumped into my head at that moment.
Feathers of the Firebird 
Congratulations, Sophie!
Wendy Blaxland
writer
19 Lisa Valley Close Wahroonga NSW 2076 AUSTRALIA ph +61 02 9489 4955, m 0411 071 273
The business of life
The business of life is is-ness.
Not crossing off lists,
but listening to
the tip-tapping of raindrops,
the curl of bird-calls,
catching glimpses of spider-silk
knitting air into patterns,
feeling currents of wind
swirling round our skin
from fingers to toe-tips,
as our lungs unfold
to hold that rich flow
of the rhythms of life.
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Thank you, Wendy!
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