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STUART COOKE

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If Fleeting

Now that the moment has come back to us,

are we ready to take it and move on? Which

 

is to ask: Can we? Will we ever hang

by the echoes of what was first said?

 

And with the spoken are we prepared

to align the written? Which

 

includes the act itself. Of

acting, in the sense of purpose, events,

 

enclosure, the delimitation

of a written vowel like a stone dropped

 

in cooling wax. And

if we are to think in large canvasses,

 

will we be thinking of the same stories? Where

I have fled from absence.

 

Where I suffer from the absence.

Where I.

 

Where is experience? What is experience

if fleeting? This bold, indissoluble

 

trend. Because big art

is so yesterday, along with all our worlds. Do

 

we sit on them? Which is

to consider: do we not? But

 

to the world, do we say the spoken? Or

to it, do we say ourselves?

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STUART COOKE is a poet and critic currently working on a PhD thesis about Australian and Chilean ecopoetics at the ANU.