This poem is on p.17 of The Structure of Light: poems, haiku and prose, 2005, Adelaide, Seaview Press
to be
above all
to be
within all
to be
stillness
to be
silence
to be
pure expansiveness
to be
to become
living light
to become
melting
to become
presence
to become
immediate
to become
connected
to become
laughing
to let go
and
become
Sally Ann Hunter is a biologist and environmental policy officer (BSc [Biol], MEnv Sts.). She has published a collection of poetry called The Structure of Light and a biography called You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down: from Parkinson’s to a New Life with Deep Brain Stimulation.
A paper she wrote on the biography, was read on ABC Radio’s Ockham’s Razor, as was a paper on living with solar power.
She completed a ten-month course called Manuscript Incubator at Writers SA. Also at Writers SA, she did Poetry Studio on Zoom with Jill Jones over several months.
A novel called Transfigured Sea, (Nature Writing) was published in 2022 and another called Golden Cups (Historical Fiction) is in the process of publisher’s revision.
A number of her poems have been published in anthologies and online. She lives in the Adelaide Hills where she gains inspiration for much of her Nature Writing.
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