famous reporter 29

[June 2004]

KAREN BLAYLOCK

Walleah Press

Currajah

Famous Reporter

Everyday Watch

It's not the gold I inherited from you, but

The everyday platinum forgotten

In a drawer, honest face, a hundred years extant,

Keeping time like a conscientious railwayman.

 

Sentiment doesn't fit with it, but in the

Steel smooth from wear and in all seventeen

Jewels, there's you; diamonds of silver

As numbers, the tick like the rhythm of a train.

Karen Blaylock is an Adelaide writer whose poems have been published in Australia over the last five years. She is completing a PhD on 'The Poetics of Childhood, Imagination and the Natural World'.