Gary Thornell
Label the Provinces

21 July 2009

Label the provinces: She
floats and evades
and conforms to British Quality Standard BS1970:

Country        Number of Deaths        Cause
crowd on the plate
one blind step to each beat

alone at a Sydney restaurant, a whole plate
alarm clock emergency siren and blinking high sensitivity 360° telescopic antenna
all to himself.

Zhai radios from the vastness of space, 'I am proud,
to hear her private singing from the bathroom:
and shot with liverspots like extra moons

or clock stopped 20:07. I step to the cliff edge-'
Those rare tickets    illicit lure of the cubicle
voice like a field of unreturned

stars suspended beneath the ceiling
used his pale skin as metaphor.
Lies are by nature brittle.


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Gary Thornell

About Gary Thornell


Gary Thornell is a found poet and Buddhist psychotherapist, currently living in Leichhardt, Sydney; previously unpublished, but a runner-up in the Ulrick and Bellevue Literary Review competitions.

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