This poem was written from a memory at Alice Springs after meeting Norah Jurrah Nelson in 2006 and my cousin, seeing I had fallen in love with it buying me her painting of The Seven Sisters, a canvas spread out on the earth held down by four stones . I like to think it still has some red dirt on it. Now framed on my wall.
milky way dreaming
sun ablaze
dark skin
shines with sweat
her eyes look up catch me
she sits on the earth
a red sandy space
at the edge of the alice springs mall
her canvas held down
by four small rocks
milky way dreaming
a sash of silver gossamer
arches across the black canvas
in a brilliance of stars
to the side seven dotted circles
she points
names the seven sisters
only desert eyes know this sky
paint this song of stars
didgeridoo dancing stars
brimming
fiery-white and deep
now on my wall
framed
