20: SUBMERGED
joanne burns: story board
don't let the autumn sun
catch you napping
lazy young fool there
on the pool tiles cheek
on the laptop pluto
lurks beneath the
screen to drag you
down pilot his
black water rafters
towards dark summers
frail content
joanne burns is a sydney writer. her latest collection of poetry is 'footnotes of a hammock' [Five Islands Press 2004].