Voyager: Dr Gershon Maller

Voyager: Dr Gershon Maller Distinguished and award-winning Australian poet, long-time mentor of Sophia, and beloved friend, Dr. Gershon (Gary) Maller OBM, died this week in Melbourne after a long illness. Last week, I sent a friend a poem of Gary’s. The poem, Rogue Objects, is a terrific piece. It is, I said, “clever, philosophically grounded, metaphysically deep….and with a quirky humour.” It occurred to me afterwards that this is, in fact, an excellent description of

No Coward Soul

No Coward Soul Ten years ago, ten years ago today, the machines in the ICU were turned off and Sophia died. In That Sleep… Bury me in my carapace of stone Like a molten Eleanor Without half a face Bury me in garlands Of burning paper With all my pollen sparks of steel Bury me in my mâché wings Folded into ribs of bone Netted into needles The firmament is the skin of a broken

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