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joanne burns: ring




in the vast phobic
cupboard discretion mislays
a shoe horn and discovers
a veteran rat trap, the top
coats hang themselves in
memorial unison, umbrellas
lurk like archival weather
reports, shelves stutter
ghazals to power drills
while the key ring fears
moral decay: renovation
is the soft option let's
go camping


 
joanne burns is a sydney writer. her latest collection of poetry is 'footnotes of a hammock' [Five Islands Press 2004].


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Posted by liam on December 7, 2004 10:57 PM in the following categories: 20: SUBMERGED
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