POETRY BY

Graham Nunn
© Graham Nunn 2005

Night Poem

there are snakes

           on every ladder

don’t you know it?

& we are seedless fruit

          giant

                      fleshy

    & irregular

wearing a coat of gestures

          broken lines

          & bald patches

predators of the worst design

          & the night is ready

                      to be eaten

A Crisis of Landscapes

In Byron, amid the bittersweet smell of humanity
that, like a wave of colour split open,
leaves the stupid remains of
a plastic paradise on the shores
and the clamour of engines,
a current of humidity and skin,
something that flows from the depths
of molten tar as from a ruptured vessel:
a crisis of landscapes, a remote
dream.

 

Graham Nunn
© Graham Nunn 2005

More by Graham Nunn

Graham Nunn is a Brisbane based writer, current Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word and founding member of local performance group SpeedPoets.

His work has been published online at GetUnderground, Retort Magazine, Lily Review, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Stylus Poetry Journal, SoftBlow, Poetic Voices and Sidereality; in print journals and anthologies Open Wide, Egg Poetry, Blue Dog - The Australian Poetry Journal, Text Messages - an anthology of new writing talent, Aesthetica, The Courier Mail and Agenda to name a few.

Graham’s first collection, A Zen Firecracker - selected haiku was released in November, 2003. Share the Tragedy was launched at the Brisbane Writer’s Festival in October 2004. His latest collections are Measuring the Depth, a collection of haiku and haibun, published by Pardalote Press and To the one who comes at dawn… co-written with local Brisbane poet, Mandy Beaumont.

 

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