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Please let him be a bird in this land - Juan Garrido​-​Salgado

from The Night's Insomnia by Jen Lush

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Poets commentary:

So about my experience of writing this poem is came back to the ugly time of John Howard very racist government. We went in a bus with a group of young people and adults to visited  the refugees at the Baxter Detention Centre  and we meet all young refugees at this time. It was so sad to see them in that unhuman condition. not sign of hope on their eyes only desperation. We came back to Adelaide with a broken hearts and also with the determination to make more awareness and  more public actions in solidarity with them; after a several months we new Daggie Sheltens was moved to a RAH and after Glenside’s hospital we never give up to supported him until our struggle became a victory  after seven long years of injustice end and our friends become to be part of our Adelaide’s life with a permanent t visa.  ‘Long live to all who struggle for compassion and Justice.’

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Poem:

The sea is a boat on his dream.
The darkness at the shore embraces
It’s journey to a new land.
His visa is only a wave without a name.
Baxter, desert of long sentences
Locked up his youth.
Now his eyes are broken wings.
Now his heart is a cloud in a cage at the detention centre.
He knew where he was in that white room.
He crashed his dream with a native tree in Glenside’s hospital.
His mind is a wounded hope for all within the wire desert
Within the white room.
His mind is a bird without air or sky to fly.
Please let him be a bird in this land.

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from The Night's Insomnia, released April 21, 2017
Jen Lush

Music composition and vocals.

Chris Parkinson

Electric & acoustic guitars, bass guitar, vocal harmonies.

Richard Coates

Accordion, keys, iPad.

Produced, recorded, engineered and mixed by Chris Parkinson at My Sweet Mule — A MSM Production. Mastered by Mick Wordley at Mixmasters.

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Jen Lush Adelaide, Australia

Jen Lush is known for her spacious and emotive, starkly modern folk songs wrapped around expansive storytelling. From her 2017 album of poem-songs ‘The Night’s Insomnia,’ to her 2021 album ‘Let Loose the Beating Birds’ Jen and her stellar band have appeared at festivals and venues throughout South Australia, Victoria, NSW, WA and Tasmania. New album 'Hum of the mettle' is out now. ... more

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