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'The sun hangs low in the sky, a sliver of a new moon chasing it down into the canopies of nearby mangroves. Across the fire Frans rasps a piece of irigirll (Hakea arborescens), shaping it into a boomerang with the same name, irigirll: tree and boomerang are one. We have sat on this same ground many times before, during previous walks of the Lurujarri Dreaming Trail. Does the country here at Wirrar (Barred Creek) remember us? Maybe some places are just right for sitting, sleeping, telling stories, if there is good feeling there.' (Publication abstract)
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Grounded.
Cross-legged, in dust.
We sit amongst murga. They fringe our camp, sheltering us from the south-easterly winds
that blow across this country during Barrgana time.
Returning to the same buru each year.
Ground re-visited, fires re-lit.
Ashes mounding up.
Remnant coals glowing once more under fires that dot the dry, sandy creek bed.
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- Yorro Yorro : Everything Standing up Alive : Spirit of the Kimberley 1993 single work non-fiction biography
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