BOOK REVIEW David Rigsbee reviews Winter's Journey by Stephen Dobyns
Justin Lowe was born in Sydney and spent significant portions of his early childhood on the Spanish island of Minorca with his mother, a painter, and younger sister. After completing his schooling in Sydney, Justin spent the late 1980s and early 1990s in London where he worked as an attache to the foreign office. Justin currently lives in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.
The Soldier Simply Disappears
there is nothing enigmatic
about a great love
its source is the same dark
trickle as all mighty rivers
the murmur under the city
we all left our parents for
birdsong follows it down
delicate at first, and solitary
the way damp sheets whisper
as though we were not there
a shrill thing by its end
the diamond shoals
the air thick with tears
and the salt kisses of the drowned
