VI. CONFESSIONAL POEM [A sheet of white
A3 paper with the tracks of a chicken’s feet dipped in blue paint entering at bottom left and disappearing at top right]
VII. CONFORMITY [Recorded on an
audio cassette]
I once received
an anonymous poem that was so good
that I had to put in
some mistakes
and take out some ideas and feelings
to make it acceptable
VIII. COLLAGE [Written in the author’s own
handwriting on a series of postcards sent to the author’s address from various countries]
A train journey
a departure lounge
40,000 feet
a taxi
a front door
a flight of steps
a corridor
from the place
you most want to be
IX. LABOUR
During the writing
of this poem
I paced a total
of 4.3 kilometres,
smoked three cigarettes,
drank six coffees
and a bottle
of cheap red wine,
wasted 2.6 hours
looking out the window,
un-jammed the printer,
answered the phone three times,
watched two and a half
episodes of soaps
and cleaned the flat
twice
(from “The God in the Box”, Agàpe Publications, 2003)
Poetry, poem, speculative poetry, science fiction poetry, Australian poetry, British poetry
S.C. Flynn 