Poems the Size of Photographs

by Les Murray

ISBN 1 876631 23 6

$22.00

Publication date: March 2002

In his first book in three years, Les Murray presents a series of brief poems.

THE MEANING OF EXISTENCE

Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence.
Trees, planets, rivers, time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe.

Even this fool of a body
lives it in part, and would
have full dignity within it
but for the ignorant freedom
of my talking mind.

Les Murray