Poetry
Light Rained Down
Lake St Clair, Tasmania, September, 2009 / / Rain drummed staccato on the metal roof, waking me before dawn. I lay in bed listening, / my nose like a dog’s, cold...
Tongue
Daring inhabitant of a confined space / bounded by what can bruise, slice / / or even kill the organ — a bilobate, blind, mouthless moray / lurking in a shark’s maw, subsisting...
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Early morning, PMO
Hansard, bound in the dead of night, arrives. / / Lay the debate open on the table. / Leaf through, take in the gore of question period, / petitions splayed, begging...
Impact
The khaki Humvee hits a bump / in the tarmac and the back / wheels blow off, the rims / scraping sparks as the whole / thing slews into sand and those...
Cornetto
In the monthly magazine, / you are bound for glory, / standing tall, antiquated, / your lean body / legendary, / -a solemn note / of wood and wind… / anniversary time,...
In April
This season, this month / you worry about papers, exams. / You analyze Wordsworth and Byron / and tell me this morning with a voice so solemn / that they both died...
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Market
Air redolent with herb. / Marrow bone, leg of lamb, tenderloin / bound with red string. Travel makes you wise— / tomorrow I fly, but today, labyrinth of stalls, / June through...
Cervical Vertebra Variation
Syringes crescendo incrementally. Segmental sound drift. Rostrum-gist shifts from leading edge to trailing. Feathers shed antithetically (molto molting melodeon). / / Song of suction bellow and reed. Seven-process processional (one spinous,...
Cervical Vertebra Variation (2)
C2. Axis. Song cycle symphysis. The second cervical vertebra a pivot on which the air changes direction. Rotating wave / / of Warblers. Palm Warbler’s 6-plume repetition. Yellow Warbler’s variable sweet-sweet-sweet....