David Malouf Quote

All safe as houses, fire
kennelled in a matchbox,
the water of drowned valleys
dammed behind taps.
Barring accidents, or malice –
nothing's disaster-proof.


Bicycle and Other Poems (1970)


All safe as houses, fire kennelled in a matchbox, the water of drowned valleys dammed behind taps. Barring accidents, or malice – nothing's...

All safe as houses, fire kennelled in a matchbox, the water of drowned valleys dammed behind taps. Barring accidents, or malice – nothing's...

All safe as houses, fire kennelled in a matchbox, the water of drowned valleys dammed behind taps. Barring accidents, or malice – nothing's...

All safe as houses, fire kennelled in a matchbox, the water of drowned valleys dammed behind taps. Barring accidents, or malice – nothing's...