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Notes
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Author's note: welcome home, then
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Epigraph:
"When you are denied the life you want, you invent one for yourself. Unless you have no spirit."
– Diane Wakoski
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Brisbane,
Queensland,:Another Lost Shark Publications
, 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Van Diemen's Landi"canyon precipice", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Swallowed by Tidei"remember last time we were here", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Deadmans Hollowi"dawn pulls back to", single work poetry (p. 7-8)
- Lost Monuments of the 20th Centuryi"at the turn of the last century", single work poetry (p. 9)
- A Handful of Inconsistencies (That Every Child Should Know)i"eating mid-week take away is not a reward for your good behaviour", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Home {sic}i"I have never lived in town", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Seven into Eveni"I read your book today cover to cover in the milk bar on St John", single work poetry (p. 12)
- I Don't Want to Go Down to the Basementi"he painted football ovals was heavy handed wore dirty fingernails", single work poetry (p. 13)
- To Fall in Love with a Man with a Five O'clock Shadowi"is to fall in love with a ghost", single work poetry (p. 14)
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The Last Friday Night Flown Soloi"parting smoke",
single work
poetry
(p. 15-16)
Note: First line: I part smoke drinks...
- Caramel Toppingi"Standing at the top of my street", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Hair of the Dogi"5am", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Tea for Sundayi"I drank that tea you gave me", single work poetry (p. 19)
- By Way of Explanationi"there comes a point when words", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- Song for San Francisco, single work poetry (p. 22-25)
- Conversations in the Departure Loungei"It begins at the airport ...", single work poetry prose (p. 26-27)
- Dundarave Pieri"I am happy to have seen the garter snake uncoil itself and slither", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Feast and Faminei"We accelerate and break our way to Downtown Vancouver; peak", single work poetry (p. 29)
- Meat and Breadi"A feeling I have been unable to name has been niggling inside me", single work poetry (p. 30)
- Canada Dayi"We watch fireworks with a couple hundred locals on the secluded", single work poetry prose (p. 31)
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