Thank you Steve, for this wonderful response to some of the poems and imagery that we explored last week. You are able to fuse key moments from Judith Wright’s haiku-like poems with her deep appreciation of Francis Webb’s imagistic power. Great work! You bring our two hour session vividly to life. – Michael
From Summer: but I live through a web of language From Brevity: enclosed by silence as is the thrush’s call
who would’ve thunk
that from being thoroughly sunk
in the scratchy voice of Barry Humphrey’s
dame Edna your silent songs would sing
so sweetly as they wing across the skies
of each page of your Collected verse.
Judith Wright, your name in each poetic work as clear
as the maker’s gull in every poetic green
storm of inspiration that blows sheer
out of Webb’s brilliant line as you look
through your own web of words to try
to see without them as you do
actually see them become the silence
enclosing your thrush’s call of each poem’s
written silence be-ing the answer to their call to be-
as we are all called to be to contemplate
the poetry of life as Judith does
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 
Hi Steve, you weave together the images from Wright’s own haiku like poems with Francis Webb’s image that captured so much for her. You have recreated Judith Wright’s own moments of creative passion in beautiful humorous and yet truly respectful way. Great work!