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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Rafqa Touma

Sara M Saleh: ‘I want to know the system and its flaws, so I know how to undo it, transcend it’

Poet and author Sara M Saleh takes a walk along Salt Pan Creek in Riverswood, Sydney
Poet and author Sara M Saleh takes a walk along Salt Pan Creek in Riverswood, Sydney. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

Sara M Saleh is bright against the picture of a rather dreary day. The poet’s blue headwrap and coloured frock are stark beneath grey clouds rolling overhead as are her white sneakers stepping through freshly moistened mud.

We meet after a night of intense storms, in the car park of an unassuming football field in Riverwood, western Sydney – the front for a secret reserve known only to locals.

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