SUE CLENNELL

 

Sue Clennell has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Letters (Journalism). She has been both runner up and commended in the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize, twice winner of the Cottesloe Then and Now Literature Poetry Prize, and has had poems published in both Australian and US anthologies and journals.

The Ink Drinkers written by both Laurel Lamperd, and herself, is available at New Edition, Freo, for $14.50 or $10 from Sue: saclennell@iprimus.com.au

In black and white

Where my father
wheeled me around,
I now wheel him.
Where my father fed me,
I now feed him.
Together we watch Buster Keaton,
who sits on the handlebars
and manoeuvres through traffic,
not realising the cyclist
has fallen off.
Who sails a car in the water,
slips on banana skins,
and can only afford a dollar box of candy
for his sweetheart.
I always cry at sad movies.