• so i can see

    “Tourist Trap”, a photomontage by Thomas Barbèy the asphalt street takes women children hats trams fences down between the buttresses of a rainforest grandmother tree with thick spreading arms Dali signs the brain of the artist who Photoshops so I can see the entrance in game worlds with laws of physics set by a programmer… Read more

  • We say I’m made of atoms. When we say I it means my body, brain breasts belly legs feet. When we say atom it means some neutrons and protons and a vast space with a few bits in it. To get a sense of the vastness, focus on the nucleus. Why must my awareness be… Read more

  • Unlike you, kid, she says, he never did anything — just kicked balls and chased rabbits At 12 I watched him, 15, tossing hay off the flatbed — tanned deltoids, torn singlet, low-slung jeans, calling to the cows I never got to touch his dull white scars or hear his baby cry His was the… Read more

  • Paperback book, 132 pages. “Jackson’s distinct voice captures the poignancy of loss and hope and the consolations of music, nature and colour.” “We’re not seated / on a carved chair … We’re the flensing edge / of any of a hundred / newly risen / teeth …” NZD $15 + postage. Read more

  • “I want to hear the ten pm train / without wondering / in what year it will cease to run” Read more

  • Let’s fly!

    Let’s fly!

    … the first / suspension of the world, the final life of the / people of the river, the life of the gang, the / final and the like, the final achievement of the / dead invasion, the people of the life of the / guardian, the final achievement of the / environment, the final… Read more