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white-browed babbler, red-necked warbler, whiteface, colonial cuckoo, white-eared monarchist, black gin leap, dry-throated spite, hooded judge, unmasked confederate, sanctioned violator, grog, god...
View ArticleAn Absence of Origin
she lists endemic birds because she cannot take them home must remain satisfied with photos of the lesser sooty-owl’s knowing face midnight hues of the dusky wood swallow prehistoric majesty of emu eye...
View ArticleBlack, Orange, Grey
on my street corner only the common crow and hell-bent mynas invasion hanging from their orange beaks the black bird counts O’s (always three) and guards the fringe of road the city sky it...
View ArticlePoem for a.rawlings
I do not find myself in shop windows or the bottom of a martini glass but in the slick mouth of rivers — the unpolished face of a wave flecked with foam before it curls and breaks. Something of me …
View ArticleCartography
Territory is suburbia is an atlas of orange-bricked battlelines. Where driveway mouths spit mortar like broken teeth and cold wars cauterise domestic skin. This is where I have mapped you....
View ArticleStarling Mimicry
Don’t expect anything new. You know my kind: aberrant honeyeater bell miner berrypecker. We are mock and echo you say we’ve ripped your song...
View ArticleQ, Without My Female Typist
I believe I was the first to see the possibility of pulling up the timber and opening up this land. -J. Bjelke-Petersen. At the window...
View ArticleIn Whiskey Gully
Miromiro speaks he sounds her out scoutishly—a collector Do you speak Tomtit? an unremembered house shingled—crisscrossing green it could rain and take a year for the forest...
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A block of greasy light reaches me from the neighbour’s shed, settles on the desk. I browse the keyboard for words I have forgotten. I type ‘stitch’ and imagine skin. I copy down my steps all night in...
View ArticleMan (o) Rina 7
Chainsaw theory: sharpen metal fangs (skin) take notes from bone Hareless chaser: groom rabbit chest case ivory moon (with toothbrush) Dusky grasswren: flanks the heart of carparks (mouse-‐like)...
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