Ben Walter



Mt Mueller

a duel in snow, so many seconds and sunken paces; are these brigades drunken with laughter and wild aims? if he chooses, he can thicken the air with grapeshot from the south, but it is clear: with such clumps of …

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South

yet with cameras and caps, how diluted this tanker’s oil streaming through wharves, cashed town searching for extremities, habitat of buses; here we are, we are on time. i too have followed the landed coast, prodigal breath thrusting salt over …

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The Tall Man

the vision has retreated into tamer signs, but for a moment I saw further; when the crowds of street petered into gum gravel and humble lights lifted up their irises of glass, there, an effigy jangled my heart, stalking at …

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My Dad and I Are Discussing His Olympic Career

My Dad and I are discussing his Olympic career and I am trying to remember which sport he entered. “None of them,” he says, “but let’s go with hurling.” “Is hurling even an Olympic sport?” I ask. “Of course,” he …

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The Land as Breath: Can Poetic Forms Be Metaphors for Landscapes?

We are standing in the midst of a football field doubled in size and then doubled again; a great, flat oval of water covered by streaks of green sedge that strike up from the surface like spindly grass.

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Pale and Cold

the kayak is pounding at the rough-torn waves as though demanding to come inside, knocking at the troughs and striving to bash down through that open door, the surface of the sea; churning like a crowd, Alisa thinks with her …

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Mt Frederick

there is a passage in the lee, the lees of the sun; the poor are said to be generous. we’re holding out our feet.

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Another Story

Once there was a raven girl wiping weary towels across the face of spent plates, tuning here and there to my announcements as I hold these colours open, cold bears huddled in the pages and chickens preening their selfishness with …

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This Wealth of When

suddenly, noticing a lost sixty             hidden in the blue carvings, furrows gaping like fish, frugal             fountain dipping to baptise white faces, roses to itemise and             radishes to task, there, then he is sewn; fingers pool in             drops on the desk.

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Servant (389)

There are clouds of greying carpets, mounting dishes, filthy climate. You were built by childish dream to fight this future revolution of domesticity. Raw materials mined from Asimov, blueprints from Quantum, partners in luxury. But these figures, circuits, equations… Servant …

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