33.0: CREATIVE COMMONS

Poetry Editor Alison Croggon
Released August 2010
Index of Poems

The guest poetry editor for this issue was Alison Croggon, and the cover image was created by Fortner Anderson. It was published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (3.0 Australia) licence. In October 2010, we published CC – THE REMIXES (33.1, 2010), a selection of re-workings of the poetry in CREATIVE COMMONS. You are free to share and remix these works under certain conditions.




beyond black & white

Posted on August 1, 2010 by rob walker

before dawn even flowers are grey till magpies, monochrome flautists, pipe in the colours

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Particulunar

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Nathan Shepherdson

• he is convinced his bullet points are new moons • even today when people use the term ‘narrative arc’ Noah leans forward • not belonging to anything in this world this world belongs to anything • i cut myself …

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Litany

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Anis Shivani

O well-wishers of the underground, defriend me. I played with the singularity of time, hounded by the noises my mother made in my ear when I was an infant, pressed close to death. Once upon a time a child caressed …

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Loki

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Ashley Capes

I am more empty than something sucked dry by a man lost thirty days in a desert and now found I feel the leg hairs of ants on my temples and they knock and wait for someone to open the …

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the tie clip [sampling Heidegger

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Peter Lach-Newinsky

when I walk in the garden my tie is kept down with a tie clip Being Becoming Care Angst Being-Towards-Death Un-Home The Mob Babble Uncanny Mood Voiding Void Thrown-ness Speaking Situation The Clearing Being-Ahead-of-Yourself Falling Existence Letting-Be Truth Forgetting Being …

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Silence in snowy streets

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Edward Reilly

The footprints were black as tarmac, somehow withholding the light which otherwise streamed across the intersection of snowy streets: perhaps they had captured her soul as she walked from the basilica over to the poet’s monument and then to the …

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Ways of the Mind as Subject 46-60

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Keith Moul

46 light wanes in Trinidad; the red ibises return; the mind loses its wager with disbelief   47 light heartedly the mind conceived the cello without frets   48 for its own security the mind forged the food chain   …

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Dogs in Space

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Maria Takolander

Somewhere in Patagonia, an old man carries an axe, and a kitten blows like tumbleweed down a street otherwise empty. The closed storefronts are vacant as dreams, and the traffic lights like absence before the raw wind. It is barely …

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When I met you in the hall

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Adrian Wiggins

When I met you in the hall you were all inclement weather on a stony coast and you held my hand as though we were more than we could be: preppy kids in a pop-song duet retrofitting dignifying deniable half-truths …

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The Walker

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Susan McMichael

I walk through the city, plaiting up dreams. They are best found at night, steaming on the road, where they have been tossed out car windows or flattened from the long walks home. I straighten the dreams, pull the colours …

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apropos

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Michael Farrell

The relation between show & tell show the seed tell the chair. there were no poppies but there was beeswax, there were no forums save the framed rain, The lead shone purple. Husks sprouted underneath, Not yellow, Dry brown. The …

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Kerb side collection

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Tim Heffernan

Take the broken things from the side of the road the rotted cedar setting the tippling tables the cathode ray tv the rusted chair the torn fabric the fallen angels the terracotta pots. Take the broken things from this derelict …

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