collectives
who went
to the same
reputation
to verb
your education
multidisciplinary
professional practice
quarterly roundup
consistently
ranked
lowest five
a trademark
has-been
with
consumer culture
expectations
happy xmas
suckas!
*
r.i.p.
icon
of blankness
embracing
inauthenticity
you will be
missed
(this is
the sustained breath
of time shared
&
ceremony invoked
etcetera)
last known
location
wanted that to be
palermo
mutitjulu
hanoi
not
holy name cathedral
crypt
apartments!
*
talking language
languages
this is the breathing
&
it’s chaos -
all manner
of tumult
so many signs
to loosen
into a poem
to
save the world
cultural
becoming
anticipates
futures
inscribed in the present
&
counters
what we mean
when we mean
‘pastime’
*
it’s nowhere near a joke
learning to drive
a myth machine
short hallucinatory pangs
whirlpool adminimally
where to turn
if not
to the ‘facts’
to the dossiery!
can’t breathe there
either
streams of t-shirts
& torn jeans
lie down dead
in town hall square
beyond bugging
nothing to noun
here
Pam Brown has been writing, collaborating, editing & publishing in diverse modes for decades now. In 2019 her collection Click here for what we do (Vagabond Press) was awarded the ALS Gold Medal. A new collection, Stasis Shuffle, is coming soon from Hunter Publishing. Pam is a Sydneysider living on the stolen land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.