—further out than any of it, than this and that,
than the togethers, the whatevers,
the coulds and the maybe these, there’s this,
further out than presence, way past it,
past its fulfilment, its makeshift ends, then its hollow tubes becoming vines,
vines wound round what is pending, the strung-out possible, there’s this,
as it happens, as it rushes through, this flexible enclosure,
its bare trees in occasional flame, in strident uprushings of burnt crumb and rose,
until collaged cries stumble across the grass,
what I would do to have this again, this operatic moment, knowing it,
to be in its duration and not even wanting to blink, when it comes,
here it comes, my body like a rock in the stream of its dimensions, knowing,
no matter what I do I will not have this again,
even as I stand upon it, even as I breathe it in,
it glides, it skids, it snakes, it will not stop, will not focus,
not even on you, your morning gaze through the window,
as I find you again in the amber dust of an afternoon, even as I ask you
I slide—through the fleshed-out compendium,
the tangled situations, the arteries of our conversations
dangling in mid-air,
I ripped it out, you out, the lyrics on my playlist compel me,
turn, turn away, away from you to what? when? out across the gardens,
the ancient boats, the apartments balancing precariously, further out
across this tipped planet, its impossible brink, words breaking off
like relations and scattering across sierras, across tables, ricocheting like shards of flak,
words thudding into pillows and other soft surfaces—wet soil,
fresh breads, our shabby husks—still further out, past all of this,
I am combing my memories but there are signs that blind me,
that race off into the expanse—turn,
the song says, turn away, can I cherish this unfurling, ebullient field as an orb,
or does it recede, or does it fissure into possibilities,
to re-emerge in huddles of churned sediment,
forever to the outskirts of what I can grasp?
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones