States of Poetry 2016
Who are you? You hear the song, the
Good line along with the others in the
Hair salon. That place for standing in; for< ...
Strawberries: a mania of strawberries on a
Turntable
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Like a teacup in a snowstorm I
Find you and break you. A sentry reptile, I advise you
To return quietly to the campfire. You mistakenly took
My interest in theology for a strategy
for Marcia Langton The rock-art guide, combusting Gwion rock art from the 'Tassel era' is happy art, for Lee Harwood Softly solarised and parallel # ... Quick across the twilight road, Water corrects the earth Little boat of red figures, adrift between two days. The creek slides through the rain's eyelashes.
Should the unique serve to typify? The Asian couple. I am history now I make sense then drop it I am bent at the switch I am bent at the floor and I am sti ... Fitness: fact, fiction open like fuchsias, down, as peaks Your sense now it's precisely The do-it-yourself piano isn't they won't be using, and this isStates of Poetry 2016 - Victoria | 'Australian awe: white guys on life and art before 1788' by A. Frances Johnson
in 43 degrees, back to image.
His sloppy dreamtime
a melted ice-cream,
far from refrigerated sublime.
though contentiously attributed and dated, he says,
authoritative white sweater in white sweater.
States of Poetry 2016 - South Australia | 'Gilbert Place - Cafe Boulevard' by Ken Bolton
two lines echo each other, glow slightly,
in a space that is nowhereOctopus
the eight legs of the cat.Flood
to flatness, patching fields with sky.Alarm
Window
Have they been ill-used? To what purpose?Asian Couple
I am inclined to think Chinese –
mostly on the basis of size,
but not Japanese (the ...
in the scales, the age of sounds
it gets dirty, it breaks
the ants carry it
my tapes of the archive
decay, loops stutter
glitch arias
facts roll under the chair
little dust songs
or songs outside
the parrots know
or fantasy? – among things
meant. Parachutes
picnic hampers
of kittens float quietly
push through
resplendent mists.
falls upward
like helium or blinds,
subtitled, you realise –
as the first tentative
kicked to matchwood, and you take
this for affirmation. When we
work out how to switch off
Bob Dylan, your plangent homemades
will go unaccompanied, no longer
sought like an injury lost in the mists
of Hansard. People suggest topics
more like an archive sneeze
than what yesteryea ...