Poet
Chris Wallace-Crabbe set his writing class to describe water. The source of
life, isn’t it everything earthly? Maybe its colour is, really, brown. Clear as
day, for most of us, it is associated with blue-type hues like azure, the force
of evaporation and precipitation. Though can long words describe vapour and
droplets? Movement is a common recourse, how water crinkled and green descends
from gullies into spearmint reservoirs. Wallace-Crabbe offered no criteria
other than language itself. January, for example, suggests flow and relief, at
least to a true-blue Australian. But which words make us new and slake our
thirst?
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