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Jarad Bruinstroop
Birth of Astroboy
Midmorning Sunday the mall is dead. Too young to be hungover in bed we hang on the rotunda steps like temple monkeys in the sun. We chip in—score a stick, smoke up in the alley, pass the pipe from lips …
Posted in 111: BABY
Tagged Jarad Bruinstroop
Change and Smokes
I. The one time Janis Joplin went straight, she went all the way home to Port Arthur, her parents and stenography school. No speed, no booze, no singing. Her mother sewed a wedding dress. Janis scraped her hair back into …
Posted in 110: POP
Tagged Jarad Bruinstroop
2023 Queensland Poetry Val Vallis Award Winners
Without prior consultation, this poem rose to the top of each of our shortlists; it was unquestionably our winner.
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Benjamin Dodds, Gayelene Carbis, Jarad Bruinstroop, Zenobia Frost
Fragments on the Myth of Cy Twombly
after Achilles Mourning the Death of Patroclus (1962) There’s no myth yet about his birth, except Lexington is a military town. Later: chariots, battles. His father was a White Sox pitcher. His father was an Italian ceramicist. Drafted into the …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Jarad Bruinstroop
Pas de Deux for Silhouette and Swan
after Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake ‘Tchaikovsky’s his vice’ — Roland Barthes. If you’re still looking, after they’ve called last drinks and the boy has emptied the ashtrays and collected the glasses, you can see the silhouettes of infamous men slip …
Posted in 96: NO THEME IX
Tagged Jarad Bruinstroop
Black-throated Finch
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Posted in 95: EARTH
Tagged Jarad Bruinstroop
I am trying to understand structure
I am trying to understand structure. I have been trying all of my life. How the edges touch the edges. Am I being too abstract again? Only detail will suffice. How the edges touch the edges. I mean concrete. I …
Posted in 87: DIFFICULT
Tagged Jarad Bruinstroop
