POETRY

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The Vintage | Vendémiaire

Translation of Guillaume Apollinaire. Please read ‘Reading Apollinaire’s ‘Vendémiaire’’ by Marty Hiatt. The Vintage People of the future remember me I lived during the eclipse of kings One by one silent and sad they died And such was their valour …

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The River Caves

We were keen young cubs, members of 3rd Mosman Bay Sea Scouts. Twelve years old and full of excitement, collecting donations for the club house charity. On bob-a-job week we walked up and down steep streets around the harbour, mowing …

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1961: lightly scored in three parts

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Protein Gradients

Dire Wolf (10,000 BC) Canis dirus We were going along okay when you upped & changed the status quo. Our Super-sized Menu died off through your public meddling. Your nutritional requirements affected us direly, Our epoch had evolved the first …

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from HOT POCKET

Xe woke up and knew immediately that xe had been asleep. Xe rotated in a slight squirm, pushing xer head against xer neck with itself and wobbling in xer glider. Each visible unifaced cumulus might seize. Xe curled within sewn-in …

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Exit Ducky?

Packet begins nobelium. Id: the adobe Meta empty adobe amp core. Red. Red description red about Mom strew, creator tool adobe Photoshop, windows mom instanced, piped mom, documented mom derived from strew, instanced piped strew documented. Did red description red? …

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그 날 (That Day)

     여름날 아침 낡은 창문 틈새로 빗방울이 들이 친다. 어두 운 방 한복판에서 金은 짐을 싸고 있다. 그의 트렁크가 가장 먼저 접수 한 것은 김의 넋이다. 창문 밖에는 엿보는 자 없다. 마침내 전날 김은 직장과 헤어졌다. 잠시 동안 김은 무표정하게 침대를 …

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포도밭 묘지 1 (Vineyard Cemetery 1)

      주인은 떠나 없고 여름이 가기도 전에 황폐해버린 그 해 가을, 포도 밭 등성이로 저녁마다 한 사내의 그림자가 거대한 조명 속에서 잠깐씩 떠오르다 사라지는 풍경 속에서 내 弱視의 산책은 비롯되었네. 친구 여, 그 해 가을 내내 나는 적막과 함께 살았다. …

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10월 (October)

1 흩어진 그림자들, 모두 한 곳으로 모으는 그 어두운 정오의 숲 속으로 이따금 나는 한 개 짧은 그림자 되어 천천히 걸어 들어간다 쉽게 조용해지는 나의 빈 손바닥 위에 가을은 둥글고 단단한 공기를 쥐어줄 뿐 그리고 나는 잠깐 동안 그것을 만져볼 …

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오래된 書籍 (Old Book)

내가 살아온 것은 거의 기적적이었다 오랫동안 나는 곰팡이 피어 나는 어둡고 축축한 세계에서 아무도 들여다보지 않는 질서 속에서, 텅 빈 희망 속에서 어찌 스스로의 일생을 예언할 수 있겠는가 다른 사람들은 분주히 몇몇 안 되는 내용을 가지고 서로의 기능을 넘겨보며 書標를 …

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Five Malfunctions for Max

Professor Vogel Malley delivers five schismatic palimpsests for Max, providing an entreat to Children of Malley II.

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Trods Which Follow

Upon each trod, given goes to trail by margins of lay; each shelter earth’s satellite in all our betweens, step pilgrims soil and sky. Ever beneath such plenitude, desire in unfounded ambush, which plots divide upon humility as tendril to …

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Excerpts from ‘Brushwood by Inflection’

The ‘inflection point’ on a branch is where the direction of curve outwards changes to the direction of curve upwards, and is usually a play-off between elastic bending and thickening growth. A branch bends continuously even while it thickens and as such the shape of a branch can be seen as a function of time. But any break-off from that branch provokes a compunction of space across a strewnness which wrangles with its proneness before horizon.

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Chains (Poems, Nagoya)

When I ate out with someone Japanese, in this case the poet and translator Keiji Minato, I asked them to translate the menu rather than the usual point-at-the-picture option. Rather than have them translate every dish I'd find out what categories there were first. 'fried things' was one.

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Dispatches

First: remember it's a foreign country, Your words spun to remind me it's a foreign English fulfilling the promise of years watching white picket fences on TV.

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A Close Encounter With CyberBarbie

Being the editor of an internet journal and all, I thought it might be nice to engage with the new media, like, and try and have some kind of conversation with an online avatar – in this case, the now-disappeared …

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