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Re: Australian poet Dorothy Porter dies in Melbourne

Heidi Klum — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:08:11 -0000

Australia is always best known for good artists in every field. Among all Dorothy porter was one of the famous poetborn in Australia Her novel The Monkey's Mask is really a thrilling and suspenseful story . I liked it very much.

Re: Australian poet Dorothy Porter dies in Melbourne

Last Will and Testament — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:35:41 -0000

Ever since I read The Monkey’s Mask, I've been hooked to her writing and her passing is still difficult for me to accept because she's definitely one of my favorite authors. Her love for words, deeper meanings and prose will never be forgotten.

Re: Australian poet Dorothy Porter dies in Melbourne

Dawn Newby — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:48:08 -0000

True, She had such a vitality and a grasp of life

Re: Australian poet Dorothy Porter dies in Melbourne

Reckon — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:29:58 -0000

NUMBERS by Dorothy Porter

I get magic
(sometimes I get more
than I bargain for)

but I don’t get
numbers.

Numbers do worse
than humiliate
or elude me

they don’t add up.

I am no algebra tart
ravished
by the meretricious music
of the spheres.

My eyes and nose
never streamed
with incontinent ecstasy
through geometry classes
as my disastrous triangles
collapsed in a cacophony
around me.

Perhaps it’s a failing
to grasp
or even want
the utterly perfect number
burning through my retina
like the utterly perfect morning.

Instead I peer
with nauseating vertigo
into the deep dark pitch
of numbers
like an exhausted mammoth
dangerously tottering
on the edge
of a bottomless mystery.