Deception Island

Dorothy Porter

Thought chokes

where ferns froze.

Sea ice stares.

A blinding lizard

of blue-white

sun.

Time steams

under rock and sea.

And grinds a grave

of boiled whale bone

to cold black sand.

Dorothy Porter (VIC) was author of the crime verse novel El Dorado. Her previous works include the novels The Monkey's Mask and Wild Surmise.

Deception Island was written by Dorothy Porter in response to Marion Borgelt’s Saris of Saturn 1986 in the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection.

Sadly, Dorothy passed away on 9 December 2008, from complications from breast cancer.