Chris Wallace-Crabbe is Emeritus Professor in the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. A poet and critic, his most recent collection of verse is By and Large (Carcanet, 2001) and his forthcoming long poem, The Universe Looks Down (Brandl & Schlesinger). Imagining Australia, co-edited with Judith Ryan, was published from Harvard in 2004. He produced artists’ books with the painter Bruno Leti.
Alec, I said you’d be around
by stratagem or shift
looking for a lift
to the somewhere burial ground
where she and I had been
(who loved one another best)
laid to our earthbound rest
in that grassy, marbled scene.
© 2007
Salt Publishing Limited 
