Today the post-
woman brought
me a man who'd
lost a leg to an
alligator. "Which

one?" I asked. 
"Can't tell," he 
said. "You've seen
one 'gator, you've
seem them all."

Why going back to Aotearoa New Zealand has suddenly become less attractive

Australia Invasion Day

 

wednesday newstrip

Globe At Night citizen science program reveals rapid increase in light pollution around world · Hollywood actor Alec Baldlost to be charged over fatal shooting during Rust filming · DoNuts T.®ump misidentified photo of rape accuser E Jean Carroll as his ex-wife Marla Maples, deposition shows · giant cane toad found in Conway National Park in north Queensland weighs 2.7kg · as the war rages on & military spending booms, the US arms industry is a big winner in Ukraine · singer-songwriter David Crosby dies aged 81 · Google's parent company Alphabet to lay-off 12,000 workers worldwide · Jacinda Ardern announces resignation as New Zealand prime minister.

wednesday newstrip

Wyoming has just introduced legislation with the hopes of phasing out the sale of electric vehicles in the state by 2035 · female NYPD sergeant accused of yanking officer's ponytail at precinct · accused baby snatcher in Adelaide says he was too intoxicated to plead guilty to abduction · Cate Blanchett criticises ‘patriarchal pyramid’ of awards shows · New Zealand Ministry of Health reports 19,179 new community cases of COVID-19, 57 virus-related deaths · another 500mm of rain possible for Mackay region as deluge swamps Queensland's north · a serving London police officer has admitted carrying out 24 counts of rape in a nearly two decade-long campaign of abuse against women · Gina Lollobrigida, legend of Italian cinema, dead at 95.

Today the post-
woman brought
me several vials 
of frozen bull 
semen as well 
as the complete
sheet music
of John Philip

Sousa. It is 
a retirement
dream. To create
the first 
Minotaur
Marching Band. 

wednesday newstrip

A Kevin McCarthy critic, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, cast votes in the election for Speaker for DoNuts T.®ump – a symbolic but pointed sign of the broad divisions over the Republican Party's future · controversial 2023 Australia Day lamb advertisement takes a dig at all things ‘un-Australian’ · Prince Harry reveals he lost his virginity to an older woman in a field, not Professor Plum in the billiard room · teen who took coke in a Tesco toilet flipped car while taunting ex · Ring offers a first look at its home security drone · a Grammy-winning recording engineer who has worked in the Nashville music scene for 35 years, Mark Capps, was shot & killed by police in Nashville Thursday afternoon · six-year-old shoots teacher in Virginia classroom.

Today the post-
woman brought
me Zeno. I’m try-
ing to get him into

the house in stages,
covering half of
the remaining
distance each time

we move, but we 
don’t seem able to
get there. Some-
what paradoxical.

geographies: Watchem

 

XXXX CENTONES now available

XXXX CENTONES is now available as a free download from sandy press.

 

I find the Cantos of Ezra Pound wide-ranging in subject & style, & note that they borrow heavily from the work of others, from Homer & Chinese sources through to contemporary historical records. Pound has the ability to blend & merge these — often quite extensive — quotes with his own rhetoric; which has a great deal of depth & beauty, & so becomes great feedstock for basing a series of centos on. The poems in this collection, written over the last six years, have the Cantos as their source — not just the words of Pound but those of those others who are embedded. Two bites of the cherry, as it were; & I hope my CENTONES reflect favorably on us all. — Mark Young

Recently, at Series Magritte

The Organs of the Night



This time the jockey isn't lost, 
just perplexed to find a set 
of wellworn curtains standing
upright on the sand. As is the 
horse, paused midstep in its 
littoral dressage routine. All 
up an unexpected tableau, made
more complex by the fact the

sun seems to be falling rather
than setting. Loss of gravity; &
everything is red-cast as the 
human condition deteriorates. 
Organ failure ensues. Night will 
not see the light of day again.

wednesday newstrip

Graduate student studying criminal justice allegedly murdered four University of Idaho students · after a lengthy legal battle T.®ump’s tax returns are released · ‘a true legend, a pioneer’: American TV icon Barbara Walters dies aged 93 · Romanian police arrested former kickboxer & influencer Andrew Tate & his brother, a day after Tate shot to international fame when Greta Thunberg derided him as ‘small dick energy’ · New South Wales man, 25, killed by bull at rodeo in Warwick, Queensland · Elongated Muskrat becomes first person ever to lose $US200b · should you be worried if your dog is getting high on cane toads?