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Author's note: 26 Poems From the Dictionary
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Epigraph: 'Apres Mots Le Deluge' - Joyce
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Alfresco
i
"we come to breakfast as the rains are",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Blighty
i
"I've pulled out the last of the peppers",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Crests
i
"what combinations are these? a strange",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Domiculture
i
"some nights the light from the globes would",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Elecampane
i
"I must have a rest now the sweet cooking",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 245) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Findy
i
"a stone drops cloudy as a feather falling",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 245-246) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Gamut
i
"the whole tribe increases this living",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 246) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Helot
i
"yawning from the headache of losing myself",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 246) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Idyll
i
"we have to build it inside narrow brick walls",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 247) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Jetsam
i
"the stable ocean leaches out my body, I",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 247) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Kickie-Wickie
i
"for one so small you become the earth in dark",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 248) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Lentil
i
"I must rearrange the house and ban some foods",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 248) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Mimetic
i
"can see you as your hair grows long",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 248-249) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Nodose
i
"nostrum sanctum there are swellings the ends",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 249) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Ogle
i
"look I have met the so beautiful that breathing",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 249-250) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Pedimanous
i
"the loss of cooking was a gift to regret",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 250) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Quiz
i
"what shall we do if the numbers come up?",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 250) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Recidivist
i
"back again, lonely magnet draws romantic",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 251) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Sundowner
i
"I am walking an avenue of trees, there are",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 251) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Tinge
i
"what regrets that things are not more perfect",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 251-252) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Unbreeched
i
"I am standing here examining a bruised and",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 252) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Venery
i
"how you lean against me, how gently you sink",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 252-253) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Wriggle
i
"let us merely lie here, let metabolisms come",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 253) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Xeres
i
"there are ends, and sometimes namings, rites",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 253-254) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Yokel
i
"how awkward is this pretence and giving up",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 254) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Ziggurat
i
"this building grows its mud sprouts",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 254) Jacket , July no. 8 1999; -
Crasis
i
"What combination are these? a strange",
1979
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The New Australian Poetry 1979; (p. 244)
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