Ngaarngk: The Noongar Sun

Ali Ngaarngk: The Noongar sun beyond. 7th Jan 2008 4:09pm
Dooytj is the heat. Ngay is the breath, and conspiring with the heat - kaalanginy - on fire, and dookeniny, the heat and breath cooking in the sun, the full sun, the ngaarngk yirraa karlmin kaalanginy, ngaarda djinanginy.
The sun, the mother above looking down and burning all below it, and me, safe in this my postgraduate's cell, under the airconditioner's spell. Meanwhile, the world whizzes by, and the heat, beyond my window, knows not where to find me, or the sun to blind me. I am hiding in the shadows looking out.