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birds draft

28 Saturday Jan 2017

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you could have cut this with your surroundings & felt

real things, maybe the abandoned train stop imprint

on your roof a freak accident of the lamp’s angle poise

or the spider web gulag around your back shed

or some bed sheets as curtains & a poster for a film

no-one else loves     each real thing numbered

 

because the title was to be the girl’s i’ve really fallen for

who wore glasses like, really needed them to see

& see it would itself fall naturally into three stanzas, each

with a different pace, a different line-fade:

deliberate, messy, or open-ended

 

none of you with a father i can picture

soo all three are Luke Perry, the at-time-of-writing

Luke Perry he who has the acting skills to pull the role off

furrowing his brow as he considers optometrist expenses

listed on a paper bill, then raising his eyes over the paper

bill to consider this bf on the threshold

i mean he is unimpressed yet steeled & ready

a denim shirt

 

um there is just the song of birds instead

& volume of poems on rec we are the latest cartoon

adaptation not faithful to the source text ugh

i cannot see anything so throw on my jughead crown

plan an abrupt ending & effect a jaunt

Book Launch

27 Friday Jan 2017

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owl-blog-poster

so i’m doing this in wagga. you can come if you want. it will be fun. big thanks to cordite books, and for supporting the launch the booranga writers’ centre & the wagga wagga art gallery.

this is such a straightforward post. maybe that’s where my writing is heading… literal, truthful, calming. idk.

uneven lines feel uneven

17 Tuesday Jan 2017

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hello welcome to the time of writing framed by a borderline

fantasy of palm trees & green coconut paving

 

where mangrove theory impresses or imprints i was holding

a static hangover gently amidst sheets

 

i guess time is a wide-eyed doe for everyone     when we’re fucking

the deepest sensations are plain fleeting when i’m losing friends

i’m gaining stability & look there are bays of smeared moonlight

 

or smudged radiation? hmm everything a window

on danger & attraction at the same time     mind you

no-one can avoid dread & climax

 

but like he said i am killing at photovoltaic scrabble with ‘now’

placed as every evening tho cropped for incrimination

you’re the dog we’ve all come to love!

the stinging nestles in & in-jokes

feel sage      a key branding decision

The Only White Landscape

15 Sunday Jan 2017

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landscape, new collection, poet, poetry

ok so this is actually available now through Cordite Books. $20. you can order it now, it will be posted now.

it’s been a long time in the making. i’d love to know what you think 🙂

you can also read astrid’s lovely introduction to the book here.

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