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Roadkill shock rocks the pink and grey’s
galah world, this is not wordplay, or deathpuns,
until the sun goes down, shocker, blood-letter,
hit and run make-over, splatterfest and gore show,
a ‘laugh-a minute’ partner wandering about in a daze, ... (read more)
galah world, this is not wordplay, or deathpuns,
until the sun goes down, shocker, blood-letter,
hit and run make-over, splatterfest and gore show,
a ‘laugh-a minute’ partner wandering about in a daze, ... (read more)
Straight roads, built for driving fast.
You get out of winter in a day.
These paddocks so like thoughts you travel past,
strung out beside your asphalt purpose.
You get out of winter in a day.
Cattle fat as history watch you pass,
strung out and beside your asphalt purpose
in these vast effects of corroded light.
How do you bury a poet?
Surely not
how they buried Baudelaire
thrown in with his parents
like an infant death.
It stretches
to a ghastly irony
Pasternak’s remark
that poets should remain
children.
Tears of the Maasai by Frank Coates & Far Horizon by Tony Park
by Nicola Walker •
Parker & Quink by Jennifer Compton & The Yugoslav Women and Their Pickled Herrings by Cathy Young
by Philip Harvey •
Native Title in Australia by Peter Sutton & Crossing Boundaries edited by Sandy Toussaint
by Stephen Muecke •
The Trembling Bridge by Manfred Jurgensen & Dancing with the Hurricane by Leon Silver
by Judith Armstrong •