the hued emerald thickets of
desire to lace fling themselves
have a cold like at the vigilante
this one? in the air doves i’the
ask the developed world shade
about life & ambitions suffer s
punishment for being a lovely per
son a weak friend this is not all
a mass high-five or even people
fatigue mum said rest dream of a
in bed or on a sense of speed
bright me a grouped psycho
ado logical inheritance to
w cut thru hazards & break up
the walls of sound of atmospheric
u bands on both sides of the rr
rude room guards rotate like
waves of news & elevate to
magic carpet the top deck as i
produced real suns i lluminate &
fire halfway up the walls shift g
the attack of surround sound ears
floodlights on the steering wheel
Amelie & i bounced behind a
unclothed & breasted by body
the waves at sea we drew back
were done in a view of dawn
a hull of a black hearth & lamp
night one reels as time wells
© Toby Fitch
(published in Best Australian Poems 2013)
Toby Fitch’s Rawshock was a co-winner of the Grace Leven Poetry Prize, 2012. It can be purchased directly through http://puncherandwattmann.com/books/book/rawshock
Not really sure how to read this! Found it rather confusing. Guess I’m not a very sophisticated reader of poetry.
Read each side separately, and let me know how you go please…