for Judith Fitzgerald
Who were your parents, your mentors You and your BIG
WORDS You and your BIG WORLDs What is beaten
not out of one, survives, subsists in verbinous might through
yellowed gerunds The book retains the odour of decadesof blowing smoke across rooms, across yellow cordons of
time The colour of eyes in muted portraits of selves In
reflection, diaphane issues come to light The narrator is
a liar will not face facts twists whatever that tongue
elects to tamper with A movement occurs, painstakinglydrawn out then scherzo to taste
Books weight too much No way you wanna get ’em mixed
up with THE LAW The letter is the only molecule to
last eyedropped outward The letter secures their sleep
forever in the mausoleum no O terra addio this time asleep untouched for buckets of time the colour of waste
-ing away -ing away with verboten thisogeny this
story of this and all this illustrious progeny scattered
among all this imaginative terrain tucked into caches
thick with ardent belief unearthing will transpiremenis away menis away day echoes of the ancient world
warp the loom of the mind Kudos to you, O undertaker
of journeys set to Monteverdi that is to say ne’er leaving
a room of one’s own room to pace a steal of a deal gettingin on the ground floor while offer stands erect Priapic
words that offer a lift / words like rare currency in karma
jar / words like inchoate you nearly choke on like rich meal
to unacquainted palate until years later the savour like an
involuntary memory coming up on one at the instantof display window What more can I descry or pledge
to do Sandwich man outside of which premise, classical
shrieking MAKE THAT WHAT The the is beautiful
this time of year dredged out of a stream of coughingthe the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the
obviously swimming in it luxury gumption to take
a strategic point on top of it vulgarly chewing over
vulgar dead languages circling like a hungry pack ofvulgars champing at the bit chomping at bits biting
into neural organizations at the slightest fragmentary
nods of sound structure suggestive of own collapse
via beauty of word beauty of entropy aglow at dawnrife with interruption Wake up to plainchant will be
the title of something instead of that screeching alarm
polyphonic breathing when it starts to get interesting
through thin walls, neighbours showering, hummingthe type of thing they paint the topical of a capsule
hidden from time the shape of a gaudy tombstone
the type of thing held in holding pattern in display
window, selling the latest whatnot, a type of thingaccountants do not consider investing in one-
self getting in on the ground floor getting overdread vanity yellow flowers friend-
ship refrain of sailing off horses neighing a
random gifting wistful the plastic violin another
wheedle in the stack playing by ear using CésarAuguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck technique
surrendering to musical representation of a failing
heart to broken marches to all that aesthetic
anxiety and no even basking in that minimalist
concerto is no retirement plan no a box of meto give something back this sweet season to you
who know to you who might carry me across
- 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