Pam Brown: Where Am I?

27 June 2005

a sheet of pills
slips from the drawer
to the floor

not near a radio

can't operate
the dvd player,
don't understand
the digital box,
(do I care ?)

air, breeze and leaf
(someone else's window)
tinge the time
(someone else's clock)

sockettes
drying
on the door handles

a precious feeling
like a fungus
or a furball
in my throat

you could
freeze a lioness
in there
that fridge
is huge

can't find any
powdered milk

Pam Brown is a former poetry editor of Overland and is currently associate editor of Jacket.

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Pam Brown

About Pam Brown


Pam Brown (1948 – ) was born in Seymour, Victoria, but since her early twenties, she has mostly lived in Sydney. She has made her living as a musician and film-maker, has taught writing, multi-media studies and film-making and worked during the 90s as a librarian at University of Sydney. From 1997 to 2002 Pam Brown was the poetry editor of Overland and since 2004 has been the associate editor of Jacket magazine. She has been a guest at poetry festivals world-wide, taught at the University for Foreign Languages, Hanoi, and during 2003 undertook an Australia Council writers residency in Rome. Her publications contain more than a dozen poetry collections, from the early Sureblock (1972) to the volume of selected poems Dear Deliria (2003) and her most recent book Peel Me a Zibbibo (2006).

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