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States of Poetry
'FAUNE et JEUX' by Jessica L. Wilkinson | States of Poetry Vic - Series One
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/>tailed Bedouins<br />of Poetry, black<br />cockatoos embroider<br />the sun into us,<br />seam-rip it asunder.<br /><br />*<br /><br />On the Fitzroy's<br />bank at midday,<br />cracking seeds of eucalypts<br />that outrank Council, a hundred<br />Banks' black cockatoos,<br />a paroxysm of commas.<br /><br />*<br /><br />With their subtler<br />comp ... </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-queensland/174-states-of-poetry-queensland/3076-states-of-poetry-queensland-moon-by-stuart-barnes">'Moon—' by Stuart Barnes | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/reading-australia/for-the-term-of-his-natural-life-by-marcus-clarke/author/5301-stuartbarnes">Stuart Barnes</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland" title="States of Poetry Queensland - Series One">States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><strong> Woman</strong></p> <p>the real sea snoring half a mile away<br />the scrubbed brick walls of the double lounge and its<br />samples of african drums flood the speakers</p> <p>Is that your shadow, weightless,<br />a smudge of grey dust<br />in the black trickery of the she-oak?</p> <p>the ... </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-queensland/174-states-of-poetry-queensland/3078-states-of-poetry-queensland-horus-and-set-by-stuart-barnes">'Deep Sea Love' by Stuart Barnes | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/reading-australia/for-the-term-of-his-natural-life-by-marcus-clarke/author/5301-stuartbarnes">Stuart Barnes</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland" title="States of Poetry Queensland - Series One">States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><em>... it shimmers, it does not stop, and I think it wants me.</em><br />—Sylvia Plath, 'A Birthday Present'</p> <p>Here's some activity you may have missed:<br />pompadour-lure hung three days after I<br />disentangle.<br /> 'It misses me.'<br />The fourth: A ... </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-queensland/174-states-of-poetry-queensland/3079-states-of-poetry-queensland-fingal-valley-by-stuart-barnes">'Fingal Valley' by Stuart Barnes | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/reading-australia/for-the-term-of-his-natural-life-by-marcus-clarke/author/5301-stuartbarnes">Stuart Barnes</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland" title="States of Poetry Queensland - Series One">States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>Nan's budgerigar,<br />cat fed squeezing like the morning<br />fog between oxidized barbed<br />wire and gorse<br />with an older cousin<br />with a slug gun</p> <p>booting sheep skulls<br />stripped by gusts, our fathers'<br />1950s snares swooped by plovers,<br />daring: 'yellow spurs! forearms<br />up!' shooting star-<br />lings for laughs</p> ... </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-queensland/174-states-of-poetry-queensland/3082-states-of-poetry-queensland-horus-and-set-by-stuart-barnes">'Horus and Set' by Stuart Barnes | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/reading-australia/for-the-term-of-his-natural-life-by-marcus-clarke/author/5301-stuartbarnes">Stuart Barnes</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland" title="States of Poetry Queensland - Series One">States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <p style="text-align: left;">From his ebony eyrie<br />the moon is salubrious,<br />round as the white lotus' root.<br />The desert's his adversary.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">The moon is salubrious<br />with his godly left eye.<br />The desert's his adversary,<br />spiteful, like a hippopotamus.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">With his godly left eye<br />the moon is neither ossuary,<br ... </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-queensland/174-states-of-poetry-queensland/3083-states-of-poetry-queensland-february-snow-by-sarah-holland-batt">'February Snow' by Sarah Holland-Batt | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/reading-australia/for-the-term-of-his-natural-life-by-marcus-clarke/author/2640-sarahhollandbatt">Sarah Holland-Batt</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland" title="States of Poetry Queensland - Series One">States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>Unexpected on a day like this—<br />sun shuttling through the 125th Street bridge,<br />plastic strung in Harlem's elms like tattered wreaths:<br />unseasonable, unreasonable spring.<br />Under the red shadow of the Grant tenements<br />lunchtime noshers clatter china at Bettolona,<br />dogwalkers spread out on the grass in Sakura Park,<br />men from the halfway home<br />drag their deckchair ... </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-queensland/174-states-of-poetry-queensland/3084-states-of-poetry-queensland-mackerel-by-sarah-holland-batt">'Mackerel' by Sarah Holland-Batt | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/reading-australia/for-the-term-of-his-natural-life-by-marcus-clarke/author/2640-sarahhollandbatt">Sarah Holland-Batt</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland" title="States of Poetry Queensland - Series One">States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>How fine it is to mutiny<br />against my tired mind—</p> <p>say <em>self, you are through,</em><br />to smash into a mirrorball</p> <p>of echoes all scaled<br />in dizzying Nordic blue</p> <p>feel the universe tilt<br />and infinitely rebuild</p> <p>to flicker<br />like a skerrick of spindle silver</p> <p>needle-quick,<br />and never be held—</p> <p>this is the freedom<br />of the uni ... </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-queensland/174-states-of-poetry-queensland/3085-states-of-poetry-queensland-quetzalcoatl-by-sarah-holland-batt">'Quetzalcoatl' by Sarah Holland-Batt | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></h2> <!-- Item Author --> <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/reading-australia/for-the-term-of-his-natural-life-by-marcus-clarke/author/2640-sarahhollandbatt">Sarah Holland-Batt</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-queensland" title="States of Poetry Queensland - Series One">States of Poetry Queensland - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <!-- Item introtext --> <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><em>—for Vera Pavlova, in Mexico City</em></p> <p>On the bus to Teotihuacan, we turn<br />a new god's name on our tongues</p> <p>like a charm, jagging past<br />cinderblocked hills</p> <p>chocked over the motorway,<br />grey pixels stacked so high they merge</p> <p>with the smoked white Mexican sky—<br />then a guitar player in the aisle</p> <p>begins a song whose only familiar<br />wo ... </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-queensland/174-states-of-poetry-queensland/3086-states-of-poetry-queensland-treecreeper-by-sarah-holland-batt">'Treecreeper' by Sarah Holland-Batt | 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