Basic Overview About Approaching Form

accompanied by David Buchbinder

How I fact
Believe not believing
Literary but
But social
Chaos plus x
Fear-tone then end-making
By the shove spirit
All faith’s names
Until only
Seems it yet
Torturing a brick
To find the house
Content is form’s ancestry
Form thought it
Two facts in one
Divine imprisonment
How forth
To the subject
Almost there is God
















The Size of the Injustice

accompaniment a la Barilli

There are speed-limits for crossing drawbridges
God’s pedigree is known only to treasure-hunters
The rules don’t take kindly to new tastes
The-statue-that-never-was must abide by the laws of statues
Talk hit gee-whiz bark pow-wow pow wow bow-wow
Classrooms can change methods of communication
Mushrooms can change methods of communication
The injustice is at the moment about the size of the rip-off
Something of flesh and blood is difficult to live with
But a purely voluntary limitation is presumably reversible
Knifed in the back and food thrown under the door
Now as large as the unrecoverable meaning
An idea of deceit is triggered by mystical sinking
Fished out with more boldness from its millinary storage
Terroristic exclusion crops up again and again
All proud acts end in silent eyes just like the past
You should have seen the one that got away












MTC Cronin has published numerous collections of poetry (including several in translation) and has co-written a number of volumes with fellow-Australian poet, Peter Boyle. She currently lives, with her partner and three young daughters, on an organic farm (specializing in fresh Spanish produce) situated in Maleny (Queensland), Australia.






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