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72 pages, Paperback
First published April 28, 2006
Early Work
The one where the sky
is pale like bone
and the theme is the lives
of people observed on the bus.
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The one with the lines
'I am leaning in the wind of sleep'
which includes an intricate description
of patterns the rain has made on concrete.
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The one about the lovers stretched along the grass
while, blade by blade,
the sun moves over Albert Park.
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The one with the imagined lover that sees
the shadows gather in eaves beneath his eyes.
The brittle matter of the present moment: concrete and clear like glass.
The sound of the imagined glass, like milk bottles clinked together,
coiny and silverish.
A beach of wind and blackened water.
The stones are bleached hard white,
the wood to a pale, smooth blond
of intricate, immeasurable worth.
You limber up beside the ocean,
wet your legs to knee-high rolling.
While I am dazed and levelled out
by the stretch of bled and burning detail.
This will be the site of all our fights,
a place that is the edge of words,
the edge of water; anger is a flight
of hardened-out and whitened stone,
you flaring up against me, ascending
and then the bright light
haloes your eyes and we
are covered in it, eclipsed.