Evenings in the Blackout (1998)

Spin 33 (1999)



Evenings in the Blackout

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III – Home Beach

The author was a gay and fashionably-dressed gallant, something over thirty, and apparently one of that class of geniuses who can never do anything till they are goaded to exertion at the last moment.

– Charles Manby Smith, A Working Man’s Way in the World (1853)

Kelp
scratches my skin
with your hands

birds flirt
through the Christmas
trees

Mt Ruapehu’s
hallucinatory green
you wrote

against snow
I hope
she’ll be right

she’ll

you’ll be great

[Spin 33 (1999): 50-5 &
JAAM 14 (2000): 49]


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Wharfbury Dogs (1998)

Salt 6 (2) (1999)



Wharfbury Dogs

by K. Wallis Coales
& Jack Ross

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[Salt 6 (2) (1999): 17 & 60 & 62 & 67]


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K. Wallis Coales: The Wharfbury Watch-Dogs (1930)


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Jack's Metamorphoses (1997-98)

brief 15 (2000)



Jack's Metamorphoses

Libri III

The unconscious has no sense of time, and a fondness for weak puns.
– Kendrick Smithyman, Closing the Chocolate Factory

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[brief 15 (2000): 57-62 & brief 19 (2001): 70-79]


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Except Once (2012)

Kirsty Black: Except Once (2012)

(July 13, 2012) Except Once. Korero: Poetry / Art Collaboration with Kirsty Black. Curated by Siobhan Harvey & Melissa Elliot (13 July - 2 August, 2012). (Howick: Uxbridge Creative Centre, 2012).

Except Once

– Aren’t I always nice to you?
– Except once.
(Overheard in the Massey @ Albany Refectory)


tap’s still dripping, diesel generators roar
in shop doors, no money rolls
in, lumps of old essay sag
in plastic bags – I type out texts
from Penguin Books of European Verse.
   The water’s too cold
      for swimming.

Focus on externals: tick of death
in Irene’s stomach, Miriel’s scorched flesh,
brain-clots and blood-diseases, Julian’s sister
killed on Saturday night – I like to see
the islands in the gulf, driving
   down the long hill, ships floating
      down the sky.

(17/3/98)

Korero. The Imaginary Museum (13/7/12)

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