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GRAHAM NUNN
Fortune
- and when, after I’ve wasted a lifetime looking
- picking over poets, browsing beaches, shopping malls
- when, after I’ve up and quit, you suddenly
- adopt me, smiling from the carpet of the Royal George
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- when you renounce your wilderness and move in
- living in the back room as its sage, my other
- the one who will teach me to desire
- only what happens
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- when you come, inscribed by solitude
- dog-eared, faded, packed with former lives
- inside you like a matryoshka doll
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- when you gather
- when you fold
- when you find me as the moon
- found Li Po in his drunken boat
- when you speak to my heart of its heaviness
- the soft facts of erosion
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- when you whisper in that
- infinite tongue all that the world allows
- all one could wish for
- though it can’t be
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- we both know
Graham Nunn is a Brisbane based writer and editor,
co-founder of Small Change Press and organiser of Brisbane’s longest running poetry
event, SpeedPoets. He blogs fiercely on all things poetry and music at, Another Lost Shark: grahamnunn.wordpress.com.
He has published four collections of poetry, his most recent, Ruined Man (2007),
and he has just released his first spoken word CD, The Stillest Hour.
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