Ruby Street

Sometimes at night burning among cautions so when you wake sufficient clouds flame you were floating in what you haven’t done seek to tongue and carry remembered chora heavy moon will not let you sleep

Maybe I was born among democracy under libertarians on the lam. Maybe I was carted with mimics and homeopaths to the tune of a trice bawdy ballad as exchange. Then I was a debtor living in jalopies with some new kickback. I know I swallowed piranhas, and something more confusing. After that I didn’t speak about the libertarians for a long time. The mimics wandered, catcalls were exposed. When rampage reigned, I'd write in multiples. If they were bad seeds, I couldn't tell, but they were absorbed. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. There were votes in airships and trampolines, teacake for dolphins and yogis. I did not lose out though the yields were all under-reported. If the calories were faulty, it was always blissful in negative space, and the heavy breathing.

faint familiar what sort of creature extinct, quarry, the way they are anomola, lurks from shales mysteries eyes of rock could I be capable of such patience?

and lost, skimming the tinkle on line the benchmark is a dumbcluck again — wrong, it’s a coyote vibraphone a layette, a kitchen filled with fireworks and lobbyists so, avoid the normal, the natural it's not as if it's a subcommittee of outcasts they play, dudes, they play at the roadblock again among passersby, robins, leatherette rampages, the essentials of the lost, the sum of being a superstar or you’ve lost control again

A publishing house in the Ukraine, Krok , have just released an e-anthology in English and Ukrainian featuring 20 Australian & 20 Ukrainian contemporary poets , plus a small selection of images by Ukrainian and Australian photographers. Called Contemporary Poetry of Ukraine and Australia , it has been edited by Les Wicks, Yury Zavadsky and Grigory Semenchuk. Australian poets include Susan Bradley-Smith, joanne burns, Michelle Cahill, Susan Hampton, Andy Jackson, Kit Kelen, Cath Kenneally, Anthony Lawrence and Peter Minter, and photographers include Cath Phillips and Annette Willis. Ukrainian poets include Serhiy Zhadan, Pavlo Hirnyk, Iryna Shuvalova, Natalka Bilotserkivets, Kateryna Babkina, Vasyl Makhno and Yuri Andrukhovych. The book is available as a pdf download . It's free, it's easy and it's good.

Here's something straight outa Eire, the first issue of RunAmok . Poetry by Michael Kindellan, Robert Sheppard, Gerry Loose, Jennifer Matthews, Joe Luna, Andrew Spragg, Giles Goodland, Jill Jones, Simon Howard, Amanda Ackerman and Juha Virtanen. Criticism by Mandy Bloomfield and Aodan McCardle. Edited by James Cummins, Sarah Hayden, Niamh O'Mahony and Rachel Warriner. You can buy it online. I have yet to see my copy but caught a glimpse online as it appears to have had a first outing at the Sound Eye festival among some other terrific publications, as shown on this blog . I had hoped to act on an invitation to this year's Sound Eye but fate had other things in store for me.

I could not stop for that - My Business is Circumference - An ignorance, not of Customs, but if caught with the Dawn - or the Sunset see me - Myself the only Kangaroo among the Beauty, Sir, if you please, it afflicts me, and I thought that instruction would take it away. Emily Dickinson - letter to Thomas Higginson (July, 1862)