Australian poetry
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Temporary Mutation
the echo to where i speakin triplicate to an exteriumthat bouncing back grabsconjunction by the sides laughter and returnto a body where thisarm doesn’t go throughthat arm allow me to make some space where my voice is clearof tungsten and… Continue reading
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Blackwattle Bay scene
Silk takes no arrowyet the birds sing stitchingthe morning like a sewing machine, its heavy pedal comes as traffic comes.Hums the poise of bridges, brick and metalthe fuels to soil and water. No one walks their dog or waltzestheir sweetheart… Continue reading
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The Uses of Emotion
Happiness assists with forgetfulness and is found in calendars Sadness helps loss be rememberedand contributes to our linear sense of time Poetry is sometimes found on stationery. Continue reading
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The concrete became flesh
The concrete became flesh and we dwelt here I was taken inI sighed herethere i walkedthe face of my enemyelsewhere here there are four wallsthe four for safety in dangerhere i am given a ceilingbecause the night skywill kidnap me… Continue reading
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Quiet, by night
quiet, by nightunder the surface,and inaudible.seamless skin sans scarsdisappearance to horizonmainly abstractvisible between eyescome closerthe rib cage risesrestseyes closefar from prying eyeslittle loves and loathesswash off platformraze for the ragewash for the waithatred for the carnivalthe flash, the crowd, the… Continue reading
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Ready
floss of fine gutto smudge off the blue sugar stuck in my instrument smile.toothy comb for the harp of my hair. water the garden of limbs and torsogiftwrap my feet and tarp to top ready for washsink sense and gridded… Continue reading
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We are quiet
We are quietbetween thunders between you and I –the deferral of the decision to appear. We will keep tospinning with our bestiaries. This is how to belonghalf-facing to the plenary world how not to be swept awayby heavy rain by… Continue reading
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Theory
“The great pond and its waste of the lilies, all this Had to be imagined as an inevitable knowledge, Required, as a necessity requires” – Wallace Stevens “I came to theory desperate, wanting to comprehend-to grasp what was happening around… Continue reading
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Alchemy sensory and basal
What the sage knows all knowcommon cuts, sleight of handsa mechanism of sets and Zs shape of salt, run of liquid,agitation of solution,shake of plants, scent and piss of animal,foldable flat, sinkable hole,call back and call forth. Mostly worldly even… Continue reading
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Destigmatic – a note
What are the things I love and value about myself that overlap between health and sickness? For example, being high spirited. With grace and art this is an admired pillar of many personalities. With the stain of mood disorder the… Continue reading
Ariel Riveros Pavez 