Australian poetry
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Watersong
Take me throughyour language of flows ripple me throughto echo the knowledge toyour surfaces and depths singschoiring body stringless to a murmurcrash a breaker to your drumin the form of river brook lake or pond.Long lived recitative of ocean seaaquifer… Continue reading
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I walk through my body
I walk through my bodyfirst the finite heartbeats per minuterushing red bloodpump by twitchI watch it in awe like a great dam Second the stomachpart filled and colonssitting squashed together Then my legs big springboards and my feet that are… Continue reading
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Half a sentence poem
a crooked beam of light in the river shallows Continue reading
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At home (summer)
The wind invites itself inand hugs me for an augenblickreturning after a day’sroving over the mesa The lights are on and it’s night and I am homethe flatmate has flipped onsome motown flapjacks sweet enough for the musical programbefore bed… Continue reading
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Good Night poem
Let the anchors aweighfrom the day’s mechanicslet remedy come from angelsand the hook line and sinkercast as spell by Morpheuslet snakes of sleep arriveby blackened heat of night. Continue reading
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As Children
On remembrance and cognizance As children we are not meant to tightrope on sewing thread As children we are meant be busy with dream our bodies bursting with sport and appetite for sweets for the stronger savoury for the game,… Continue reading
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To an Island offshore an Island
Swan swathedseagoing seguingto and frayunteathered a skiff rustedskim of spumelost cargoin the deep slow mazingon all seeingocean gardenunwalled ware the weedthe under tumblerumbles with scriedskies joined still vessel waterskatesrowingly unbiceppedintercepted for scarecrowscale the regal bow draw the pinched arrowfumble the… Continue reading
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Sept 16 2013
A mort un semaine apres l’Amor Full cracked springof a boarding house bed your mother had to have intermediary or we’d be rude elementaries animals figuring which waythe wind swang how to sidestep snakesor wear their shedded overcoats as costume… Continue reading
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Sept 7 2013
A mort et un semaine dopo amor I must sustain a face at least if not self for the hooded cold come to take all thankfulness from my lungs the on off of cerebellum naked paralysis learning, read to want… Continue reading
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The Notation of Birds
stir under wing flapper do know noise soju drunk sung falu pura purpa parru, aerthrae ha’ae, hurrr, hurrr buzza a feather buzzardisation pick tik tik i tik misik music twixt text teak stick beak the beat turrru turrru twise the… Continue reading
Ariel Riveros Pavez 