Walk Back Over poetry There was the weight of

There was the weight of new experiences

in their relationship

–John Mukky Burke

Yet letters from that mother to her teenage daughter – me – remained protected in my red life-journey suitcase

just a different speed

Walk Back Over poetry There was the weight ofRead Ellen van Neerven's introduction to Walk Back Over. ISBN: 9780648056850 Aboriginal women are the great gatherers of many things food, of course, but also stories and inner strength. The women who raised me had vast reserves of inner strength, and to pass that on was a powerful act of activism. In particular, they taught me to listen to the past as it speaks in the present. This work is about listening to the past and walking back over it, step