he is coming
from the bone wish.
Gift, from the once ocean
he surfaces in a glory of bubblesspeaking in silver and iron
forged rust promise dirt-written maps and
quick cut of desirehe is a fern with luck.
Once, he is frozen in the swell of embrace.always and exception fizz,
a childhood chemistrya search inside leaves a trail of stars.
the boiling of rock breaking down –
same vision of fleshhe hears secrets. he is a tiny landing spore.
he hears long songs for long walks
beckoning
the golden hollowthe spectre of curiosity looms low
over a wet thing,
unfurling*
a thousand years slow
in this cathedral of moss
quietness that is both the sky
and the
bottom of the ocean.a caravan at dusk on a blue drive
a sick kiss, the haze settlesin the palm of dunes
a revelation sleeps beside
the blood’s tide
its cascadetemperate rainforest
where you fused to damp soil
and spores now nestle in the night,he is a doll face
in the artificial black
and the hush of recorded silence makes the pattern of
a new dream*
he rolls under a wave
sweet marrow and beads of salt in a glass forecast.
the future speaks of littleness – the word itself fitting in
the palm of a hand
of fingers enclosing hip bones
mouths making neststhe estuary goes out, reveals a body made of triangles
he is the forever-squaring pattern
of diffusing light
through mountain ashOld bodies to the earth,
a spray of midnight blue fungi chattering in decay
he pauses in a bed of broken shell.
pieces of tounge scatter the stagea self-conscious light descends
a veil of protein called
destinymade of numbers and lines that intersect
cleaving great magma from belowhe perceives through eyelids an arrow
perfect pink translucence of capillaries shot.*
swansong of the kelp forest,
he looks up and sees an entire world of sunlight
anchored, taken out to cooler waters,
suspended in the amnion of the deep.exquisite wrinkled fruit of the setting day,
fine gold dust to protect himhe is purpling, horizon bruised and churning
he tilts doll eyes open
and breathes a tiny carousel
nose tip to nose tip, in the morning.sheds a second skin
to the orange glow of cityscape; lightning rods
and bird silhouettes*
scumming over – a sundial
carved into the flesh of his handhe is singing to
a floating anatomy its dark rot
and wraps a trusting armwords fall like the swimming of his laughter
he rests*
ashy riverbed, pink rocks risen smooth
coal sticks struck like piano strings
No music.
crown of grass tree;
it’s blackened petals in the dirtthe yellow prowl of headlights
alighting on a flash of tangerine
tucked away*
eked out like safety,
a crease in the silt births orchid, lily
and fern.he is here
- 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