(A hundred mute gods, their eyes all put out, crowd together on a stone altar. Starved of blood. Lingering on in their hunger for one more sunset. A Sybil dozing lightly in an iron lung prophesies.)
It may be a day of lunar celebrations in Lhasa but kindly don’t treat me as a pretext for gnawing on ravens. Manage your own indigestion with diligence. Not every household fire needs more ghee.
About Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle lives in Sydney. He has published seven collections of poetry, most recently
Ghostspeaking,
Towns in the Great Desert (2013) and
Apocrypha (2009) which won the Queensland Premiers Award in 2010. As a translator of French and Spanish poetry he has had four books published, including
Anima (2011) and
Tokonoma (2014) both by the Cuban poet José Kozer. He is currently completing a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Western Sydney.
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