David Malouf is an Australian writer who is considered to be one of Australia’s most important. He’s written novels, short stories, opera librettos, and more. In 2000, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2008.
‘Wild Lemons’ by David Malouf is a powerful poem about the passage of time and how some things remain the same.
Through all those years keeping the present
open to the light of just this moment:
that was the path we found, you might call it
a promise, that starting out among blazed trunks
‘At My Grandmother’s’ by David Malouf explores the haunting presence of the past and the interplay between memory, time, and mortality.
An afternoon, late summer, in a room
Shuttered against the bright, envenomed leaves;
An under-water world, where time, like water
Was held in the wide arms of a gilded clock,
‘Revolving Days’ by Malouf reflects on past love, exploring themes of memory, change, and the enduring nature of emotional connections.
That year I had nowhere to go, I fell in love — a mistake
of course, but it lasted and has lasted.
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