In the dream, Clarrie Dunn
sits naked with many thousands
in the muddy trench. He is saying
The true god gives his flesh and blood.
Idols demand yours off you.
– Les Murray, ‘The Muddy Trench’, in Collected Poems (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2006), 554.
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Thanks so much for this! In a nutshell!
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this is good and helpful on a day that has me muddled
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@Bruce: You’re welcome, mate.
@Malcolm: May the muddiness not dispel the muddledness. We live, as ever, in a broken middle.
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