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Leaves of Glass  Poems

Leaves of Glass

In late 2007 I received a grant from Arts Victoria to write a series of poems based on correspondence between Australian poet Bernard O’Dowd and Walt Whitman. Here are the first results …

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Team America

Most of us make America mean the world,
or sometimes we put “Australia” in its place.
B. O’D.

By davey | 25 Jun 08 | Also posted in Poems | Comments (2)

Drones of Prole

the drones of prole patrol the moon
that satellite of filth –
their lanterns mark the greasy poles
its dark side pepper (salt

with futile cries & lunar dews & sad
stories drones will tell of
extra-terrestrial rents & arbitrage by
mammon’s earthly (hags

o’er those captains of industry whose
gold we gleefully polish
in our dull second-class illusion we will
rise above the (swill

for life [...]

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Poet Momentous!

i am not fazed by spurious notions
of what is good or what is bad
i just flip open that temporal wallet
& spend (it’s like getting laid

or tying one on & imagining X
could well be my imaginary friend
or else i simply [...]

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Oz

final oceanic junk channel-deepened
by temporal bo’sun of the universe
are you some castaway floating sea
kelp island where dawning abendland

in elysian fields of restfulness recon-
structs her deadly breeding grounds?
or are you one of the gods sun ra
maybe following the comet kohoutek?

are you in favour of daylight savings
bonsai maintenance massive oil wars
or just some mosquitoes flying through
the [...]

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Red Dawn

“Dawnward”
B. O’Dowd (1906)

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Bush Studies 7

Barellan Australia (2008)

By davey | 21 Jun 08 | Also posted in Photos | Comments (0)

Gowayz ob LOL: Iz In Ur Bodeh xtrc,

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Iz in ur bodeh xtrc,
Teh rms ob dey iz luvs purr meh. Iz w00t an iz purr dey,
Dey not want! meh purr till iz go wif dey, respawnd dey,
An puur dey, an den WTF dey ful wif teh LOL ob teh sowl.

Iz not want dawted dat fose iz kurupt [...]

By davey | 17 Jun 08 | Also posted in Poems | Comments (0)

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