R.D.Wood

R. D. Wood is of Malayalee and Scottish descent and identifies as a person of colour. He has had work published or that is forthcoming from Southerly, Jacket2, Best Australian Poetry, JASAL and Foucault Studies. His most recent collection of poems is Land Fall

 

 

Watching the Curry Van at Margaret River Mouth
 
watchsprings
                cleared
                the council dousing
                the frailty of
                cretaceous acne,
the river effervescent
          looms, bodies bristle,
          defiant
                sharp
                unwavering
                lifting
where our identities pale