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.

 

  

 

 

  • 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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