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The Arrival
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"We are a squat of guavas",
1999
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poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 58 no. 2 1999; (p. 184-185) Timedancing 2002; (p. 58) Poems : 1980-2008 2008; (p. 201) -
The Bite
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"The lychees wait on the household shrine",
1999
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 58 no. 2 1999; (p. 186) Timedancing 2002; (p. 56) Poems : 1980-2008 2008; (p. 199) -
Tree House
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"Given: a forked stick in a rectangle",
1998
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 42 no. 10 1998; (p. 54)
— Appears in: Timedancing 2002; (p. 52) Poems : 1980-2008 2008; (p. 195) -
Zeno Sideon
Zeno Side-on
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"Wiping up time, the spilt milk of the moon,",
1997
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , Summer vol. 42 no. 4 1997; (p. 57)
— Appears in: Timedancing 2002; (p. 54) Poems : 1980-2008 2008; (p. 197)The work of art may represent a towel. Zeno is a pre-Socratic philosopher remembered for philosophical paradoxes of impossibility, such as Achilles and the Tortoise (see modern fractal illustration). The poem suggests several meanings the towel may be intended to convey, and ends in apparent exasperation summed up in the first line in Timedancing and Poems 1980-2008 which paraphrases Gertrude Stein's famous, 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.' The symbolic meaning of the art, if any, eludes the poet.
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Glad Rag Dolls
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"I remember them well",
1997
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , Summer vol. 42 no. 4 1997; (p. 70) Timedancing 2002; (p. 55) Poems : 1980-2008 2008; (p. 198) -
Pawpaws
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"We may well seem",
2002
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Timedancing 2002; (p. 57) Poems : 1980-2008 2008; (p. 200) -
Soft Left
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"The four-inch nail",
2002
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Timedancing 2002; (p. 53) Poems : 1980-2008 2008; (p. 196)The sculpture appears to include an empty 'soft' left shoe and a four inch nail. The poem contrasts the brutality and reductiveness of the nail with the shoe, as a symbol of 'driving a point home,' that has 'left' naked feet showing everywhere in the 'poorly repaired' past constructed by history.