This week on The Deep Shore—If You Were The River. This poem was written at the creek during the years I lived in a community in the Huon Valley in Southern Tasmania. I wrote many poems inspired by this little river and my growing relationship to it. This one has always remained a simple but precious reminder of how to tend gently to grief and nature, and how all things are a mirror for us, and perhaps we are a mirror for them too. 

This episode includes a recording of the Common Eastern Froglet, recorded on the Tarn Shelf in Mount Field in February. This is a tiny species of frog and grows up to only 3cm in length. They might be small, but their song is mighty and dominates the alpine landscape. I love hearing their familiar call when I'm hiking and I hope you like it too. 

Words by Helena Turner. 

Music by Cat Bednarski and the Common Eastern Froglets.

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