I like this too, Max - sort of post-Lowellian but very recognizably you
in its style & concerns. That "hurt metal" gets me.
Thanks for the review tip by the way - it led me to finding a free essay
version of Schuchard's book online -
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/Swedenborg_Blake_and_the_Sexual_Basis_of_Spiritual_Vision.pdf
Pretty wild stuff - & Bentley's Blake Records doesn't even mention
Zinzendorf & the Moravian Brotherhood, of whom H.D. by the way wrote a
charming memoir which I can't locate at present- it may be in a cellar
in Frankfurt.
mj
Max Richards wrote:
>Campus Snaps
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>The green winter grass
>is being nibbled by a kangaroo
>(or large wallaby, maybe),
>her young one posing near her,
>as if about to jump back in her pouch.
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>A young woman (student from overseas,
>maybe) is inching towards them
>with her mobile-phone-camera pointing.
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>I pause, without camera as always,
>hoping to include them all
>with me in a poised composition.
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>So this is us on a pleasant path
>between the university perimeter
>with its orderly car parks
>and the college buildings.
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>The following week's visit,
>I see not them, but,
>in the eucalypus arboretum,
>a newly dumped burned car body,
>its gutted exoskeleton posed painingly
>as foreground. Winter light glints
>off variegated gumleaves behind,
>bringing up in front rich textures
>of hurt metal poised now to rust fast.
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>Max Richards
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>La Trobe University
>...used to be outer Melbourne,
>now surrounded by new suburbs
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