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<div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria/173-states-of-poetry-victoria/3029-states-of-poetry-victoria-a-brief-report-by-kevin-brophy">States of Poetry 2016 - Victoria | 'A brief report' by Kevin Brophy</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/poems/author/1197-kevinbrophy">Kevin Brophy</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria" title="States of Poetry Victoria - Series One">States of Poetry Victoria - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><em>for Wolfgang and Birgit</em></p> <p>I failed to sleep last night, I failed to have the dreams<br />that would take me safe from one day into the next.</p> <p>I failed to be brave, afraid of the train, its snout of steel<br />pushing out of the dark into the station at San Pietro,</p> <p>its sides towering over us blue and white and filthy with night.<br />It hissed, cracked open, impatie ... </div> </div> </div> <!-- End K2 Item Layout --> <!-- Start K2 Item Layout --> <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria/173-states-of-poetry-victoria/3030-states-of-poetry-victoria-before-i-speak-by-kevin-brophy">States of Poetry 2016 - Victoria | 'Before I speak' by Kevin Brophy</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/poems/author/1197-kevinbrophy">Kevin Brophy</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria" title="States of Poetry Victoria - Series One">States of Poetry Victoria - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>This poem has not yet been written<br />and before it is I want to say I respect<br />the President of the United States,<br />the man himself and his office</p> <p>and I respect what the people<br />mean when they say <em>Democracy</em><br />though I do not know what this<br />might have to do with being armed</p> <p>and having put these points like this<br />as plainly as possible<br />on t ... </div> </div> </div> <!-- End K2 Item Layout --> <!-- Start K2 Item Layout --> <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria/173-states-of-poetry-victoria/3031-states-of-poetry-victoria-magically-by-kevin-brophy">States of Poetry 2016 - Victoria | 'Magically' by Kevin Brophy</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/poems/author/1197-kevinbrophy">Kevin Brophy</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria" title="States of Poetry Victoria - Series One">States of Poetry Victoria - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>You woke with a headache<br />and opened the bedroom window blind.<br />You bent forward as morning light came in.<br />It fell on your belly and breasts<br />and your sleep maddened hair.<br />I could hear the sickness in your voice<br />as you accepted a salad bowl to throw up in<br />and two pills with breakfast.</p> <p>The new sun tipped itself up over distant mountains<br />outside the ki ... </div> </div> </div> <!-- End K2 Item Layout --> <!-- Start K2 Item Layout --> <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria/173-states-of-poetry-victoria/3032-states-of-poetry-victoria-siren-by-kevin-brophy">States of Poetry 2016 - Victoria | 'Siren' by Kevin Brophy</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/poems/author/1197-kevinbrophy">Kevin Brophy</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria" title="States of Poetry Victoria - Series One">States of Poetry Victoria - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span>For Marianne J Boruch and David Dunlap</span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>We walk past the ruined past<br />pasted to the Academy’s cloister walls,<br />past broken Latin stones’ fracture ... </div> </div> </div> <!-- End K2 Item Layout --> <!-- Start K2 Item Layout --> <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria/173-states-of-poetry-victoria/3033-states-of-poetry-victoria-what-we-have-been-told-by-kevin-brophy">States of Poetry 2016 - Victoria | 'What we have been told' by Kevin Brophy</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/poems/author/1197-kevinbrophy">Kevin Brophy</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria" title="States of Poetry Victoria - Series One">States of Poetry Victoria - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <!-- [if gte mso 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href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria/173-states-of-poetry-victoria/3037-states-of-poetry-victoria-experiment-by-amy-brown">States of Poetry 2016 - Victoria | 'Experiment' by Amy Brown</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/poems/author/3149-amybrown">Amy Brown</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-victoria" title="States of Poetry Victoria - Series One">States of Poetry Victoria - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> 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