Savanna Wegman 

 savanna.wgmn@gmail.com

Prophecy, as a fire comes
Comissioned by Robert McIntyre’s 2022/23 University of Melbourne Wattle Fellowship
‘Our Duty to Care’ for soprano and piano trio



No more prophecy

until the sky begets a softer

Everlasting sun

or

the youth unravel

braided darkness

rushing innocence

all over Earth




Shadows designed

for our tired birth places

ghosting the new life

upon babbling breaths 




And so the young are born

New Guardians

Robed in 

Apocalypse




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Know they will rise

as disappearance is written 

on ancient weather

become beast




She watches above

as birds fall

out of the mother sky




March into the high courts

of creators and destroyers




Anjali Sharma and the army of

Future keepers

Enter this laced arena

burning horizons in their bellies




The Minister surveys the gravity

how deep we may breathe

how quickly we will fall

when the Earth veins split

and the sanctuary howls

at its open flesh 




The weather sounds like a whisper

in these walls that stand for justice




Lay down a pocketful

of bird bones

of poison oceans


—-




They speak for the

forgotten




Their ancestral home-body

Their drowning, burning worlds

for their lands that have lost hope

together their voices are louder

Becoming suns

Becoming rains

Becoming rivers multiplied

Becoming the skyward call

of protection




this call

is honoured

the duty of care rewritten




A first for acknowledging

the changing wilds




Evidence now held

in palms that believe in

collapse

and might begin to

listen




Blessing the horror

with a soft breath of courage




Remember how

young sacred tears

are greeting Earth

like miracle seeds


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