POETRY
Worldless
where’s my donkey : thursday evening catch the train, seagulls circling Central Station catch a bus pick up a paint chart, at the gallery – Korea and Kinglake photography exhibitions (different) a very thin man in Oxford Street in red …
Act #12
Vintage in verisimilitude. Private Sale – Vacant Position – Business 1 Zone. Scent of sandalwood, inconsequential bells, organic food and runes. Fortitude begs futurism. Health store – Home ware – Souvenirs. Unrequited regret: fetish value fades from my wallet, untold …
syd
overw eight s tubble d dow n too m any on e-ways glitter harbo red a r ing tra fficking dags in noted p ark be at head offices i n shape of head aches + we arg ue hom …
Office w/views
it was the key to everything if you had one copier queues questions that puzzle us like where to smoke as Wordsworth has it the river’s London’s only living presence but I shouldn’t be reading this now & scrupled her …
circle of eagles
1. important to feel comfortable can I borrow a chair skin grafts collage? with nothing extraneous. extra news: the brow paper snake’s eating a space egg plot hatches & thickens ghost w/diarrhoea has its head in my eye cleft socket. …
Transpacific
The view of the watery gardens suggested a truly Verbal rosette. We see the world as a black and White golf course. Constellations, like buttons on Apollinaire. How much longer can we afford it? We fall – in performance – …
At the Darling Harbour Convention Centre
At the conference lunch the industry chatterboxes turn a gavotte, then prop and scythe about the buffet loading up pot roast, pumpkin salad, rendang. Says the keynote speaker bignoting counterflow down the queue: “Hey I’m on the Be More Biodynamic …
Vis[i]tors
i. the office & library cooling system hum outside the weather feet on pedal or dash we refuel loyal listeners tolerating radio’s sight gags took the bridge coming in ii. so that here – Port Botany sky curators race for …
Sorry’s Essence
This poem is constructed using words and phrases directly from Kevin Rudd’s ‘Sorry’ speech as reprinted in The Sydney Morning Herald (online version) on February 13, 2008. I move today we honour, we reflect on mistreatment of the oldest history, …
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a plane flew overhead ten kinds of friends you never said that you said I just want to show how I love shouldn’t lie it’s nice try not to raise your voice military like I can talk everybody wants a …
Out of Politeness
Out of politeness you probably wouldn’t say, especially when spring has started false and hailstones small as ball bearings ring the roof keeping you trapped at the library a cancelled anatomy book under your arm – or perhaps it’s a …
Western Triv
(courtesy of the White Cockatoo) Petersham: the formerly fashionable but now rather heavy overcoat on the portugese tart. Tickertape ribbons and other dictionary entries. Lip-reading Theory of the Leisure Classes, little Ern stumbles through the public primary before graduating to …
Sadly
Ability is not the end cause and justly– not even the original thing can foreclose the horselock I don’t want to tell you I want to say you come here to the main city where all the intense emotions sleeping …
written in sydney
1. Looking for the unobstructed view a man with glasses and a chair-like stick untainted by settled heavier blueness a child reaches out to a chess-man I retell myself as coffee comes onto me nothing in the world matters more …
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