Museworthy: Spine-Scar

Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 10:00

Museworthy

Museworthy: Spine-Scar

Light comes in
through darkness

All yesterday's sheds
have fallen

Living things squat
in destruction's beauty

Opening their backs
to pain

BY MTC CRONIN

MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry published, the most recent being Bestseller (Vagabond Press, 2001) and My Lover's Back — 79 Love poems (UQP, 2002). After being employed for most of the 1990s in law, she has in recent years begun teaching literature and creative writing at secondary schools and universities. She is currently working on a PhD, Poetry and Law: Discourses of the Social Heart. Her books are available by contacting her at <margie_cronin@hotmail.com> or phone (02) 9550 2918.

From Green Left Weekly, May 22, 2002.

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From GLW issue 493