Faded posters of luxury liners,
palm trees and Tahitian girls
in yellow sarongs, offering
white frangipanni leis.
I'd like to spend my life
guarding flowers
in places where artists,
having abandoned their still lives,
paint the buttery light
all over their canvases
Karen Knight's poetry has been widely published in major overseas and Australian literary journals,newspapers and anthologies, including Best Australian Poems 2005.
Her collections include Under the One Granite Roof- poems for Walt Whitman (Pardalote Press, 2004) and the chapbooks Singing in the Grain (Walleah Press, 2001) My Mother Has Become (Picaro Press, 2003) and Dr. Says (Picaro Press, 2006).