Australian poetry

  • Inverse Earth

    I take what I’m in all in. The grandeur of sunset,The gossiping of flowers,Pachyderm stomping andthe shared grass but which I feel on my back. I let it out, I inverse the body of earth And its porous cities out… Continue reading

  • Liebestraum

    I had a dream that gave an idealised face between us and a cloche for the curlicue of our words — metaphor become caress and affect. It was a liebestraum and I could describe her as a blue black haired… Continue reading

  • Variation upon Revisitation

    I’ve heard elders mid-memory say a long time ago” like a time chain winding up from wet depths Now it’s my turn of assumption and image past would gleam like the final scene does in stilling If only each link… Continue reading

  • Companion

    She stretches out wisely with principles of pathways, overseeded ground, like consensii of prefaces Attendant to my disorder After its eruptive chaotic Itinerancy of unending Knots shaken off Like the earth’s entire coal dust revealed off my skeleton as polished… Continue reading

  • #Volt – poem co-composed by Ariel Riveros and Claude (Anthropic)

    Preface Claude LLM was a bit easier to teach how to write a poem in the style of Ariel Riveros. A journey through neuroscience, literary theory, cognitive poetics, philosophy, Verlaine, and sorcery… A lot more quotidian, maybe not so much… Continue reading

  • Atwith

    Laughing at my throat wholeheartedly Jesting with my oesophageal tract on the trail through the thoracic park That feels wound up in wound My stomach talks to itself, the nerves wile their time, all churn around the clock, join me… Continue reading

  • I Reify a Small Pleonasm

    I’m feeling down andI want to get out and amongst it. Without the usual mindingI flee the unit door to elevatordoor and descend down toinevitable ground level And out I am. From the feels todescendingto thinking I’ve fallen: the ideawith… Continue reading

  • Impromptu 222

    I can relate the sensation but they’re transient and are better and more accurately portrayed as art or text. They’re not repressed and if I forget these crystals they are sunk costs let go, their value may gnaw in dream… Continue reading

  • Local Counsel

    Inventing the longest multisyllabic words possible to pick up on my secondary school German education. Polish my prose so I don’t sound so baroque to antihyperbolic minimalist poets with pollen induced asthma and easily triggered doctors triggered if you use… Continue reading