Sue Stanford
ready or not

9 July 2009
I can't write, the story

without hands

 

applauding

Derrida's graffiti

 

she will take the pen off him

 

To fill up

 

the red plastic devil eyes

 

and tell us where we are

 

Only yesterday

filled with unfinished words

on top of each other:

 

Country

 

Cause

 

calcaneus        carpus        cranium        femur

 ilium        mandible        maxilla        phalanges 

radius        scapula        sternum        tibia

you hid

with me

 

summer dresses in winter

 
along the pathway where ducks
stop

 

Derrida's graffiti

Only yesterday

 

without hands

applauding

 

fifteen thousand neighbours died

on top of each other

 
stop             stop             I can't write, the story


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Sue Stanford

About Sue Stanford


Sue Stanford is based in Melbourne. Her first book of poetry, Opal, came out from Flat Chat Press in 2006 and her second, a tiny book of haiku, The Neon City, came out from Post Pressed in 2008. She spends her spare time trying to read and translate from Japanese ... for a very distant PhD. Yes, the lenses on her glasses are getting stronger!

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