I was flying over Sydney in a giant zombie.
(it's fun to take zombies
& stay up all night)
Sydney zombies
are white and angry-tongued, but
I am still
the black zombie of trespass on alien waters.
Things looked bad.Your zombie calls, and you answer it: your
lank zombie, dank zombie,
chafe in its crotch and sores in its hair.
(it's important to be zombie
but not to be too cute about it.) Together
we eat
bread & stewed zombie –
It's surprisingly easy to cook a zombie now.
I can iron shirts too.My zombie lives in a house where nobody has ever died.
To the wind it says, ‘They have eaten me alive.’
32: ZOMBIE 2.0
Poetry Editor Ivy AlvarezReleased 1 April 2010
Index of Poems
Cover Image: Katerina Sakkas
We went back to the future for our thirty-second issue, revisiting ZOMBIE (2003). Why? Well, It was a chance to pay homage to the issue of Cordite with the most braaaiins, so who needs any further excuse?






Cool, Fiona! Love the Dransfield nod too – like so many of these, this one made me chuckle.
Gwen Harding at the end?
oh – i just read this poem which made my previous comment on harwood superfluous .. fiona got there already