……..in memory of Antigone Kefala

Shadow mother
Demeter

come home to mama
come home, mother

it’s raining in my heart
where I walk alone

Persephone
Proserpina

come home to Heera
come home, Dimitra

the brick wall turns everything
to stone

remove the picture from the wall
forget mother
forget Persephone

look for immortality
out in the wild blue yonder
now golden as in dreams

leave us all behind
not captured but abandoned

left long ago
where the fields were
being decimated

– This poem references the song, Proserpina written by Kate McGarrigle, sung by her daughter Martha Wainwright

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Anna Couani is a Sydney writer and visual artist who runs The Shop Gallery in Glebe with her husband Hilik Mirankar. She has published 7 books of her writing, the most recent being local. She worked as a school teacher with migrant students in the western suburbs of Sydney for 35 years.

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