Lieu Journal

Elijah Money

Part

One

wet slinking

body dipping

sliding through

salted waters

sunny California

dancing slipping

spotted skin

vibrations

through soft

green leaves

quiver tickling

feet reminding

of loud culture

oily flesh giving

greeted via

blood blessing

thanking thank

you for your

kindness

Part 

Two

Lake Condah 

was told that

the water it held

was no longer 

good enough

for consumption

by colonials, it

didn't have the

same purpose as it did

did for the Gunditjmara

peoples, settlers

had plans of driving

people away from

the area by taking

lifesource from them

Water

eels were life in 

this area

no more eels

were allowed to

come and visit

Lake Condah dried

but then 2013

the Lake was filled

after the fighting

the will and power

of Gunditjmara

and even though

eels were unwelcome

for a century

they knew the way

they came back

the eels

came

back

Part

Three

deep down

forced into hiding

ducking weaving

through colonial

shit vitamin

overdose anti

depressed piss

harder to fight

white spaces

hosted in cement

cells held captive

cemetery sewer

navigating the

only way

possible right 

now -

currently no

light at the end

of your man

made tunnel

used to flow

right through

veins only to

be deliberately 

pushed

deeper to the

the core