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A shifting margin
pivots on desire
to assimilate under
the purview of theorists
who say the goodies are for
the earning
. Publishing
is your real estate.

Texts incise –
a colleague says
efface – bodies
matter too I say
though a text is
a gulp drawn
to signal this

shift of white
curve like anime
in the fold of a creek
still and alert
brighter than blooms
of tea tree near
the bridge from whence

determined pace
marks out what
comes – becomes
gust gale
squall hands
pocketed tongue
tied on cliché –

plastic flurries
each day assume
their currents – paths
of shimmer and smog
(this load of lift)
marled parchment
in colonial clench.

 

 

About the author

Anne Elvey is author of Kin (Five Islands Press 2014), This Flesh That You Know (Leaf Press 2015) and White on White (Cordite Books 2018), and co-author of Intatto-Intact (La Vita Felice, 2017). She is managing editor of Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics. Anne holds honorary appointments at Monash University and University of Divinity.

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