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Letters to the Dead and Zan Bokho are two essays I wrote while first getting to know Melbourne in 2003-2005. Letters to the Dead deals with issues of aging, death and seeking to understand the sacrifices made by a previous generation. Zan Bokho is about what is meant by that powerful word "home." Nature's Retirement Speech is an essay I co-wrote with two friends about having entered an era in which when our future as a species is more dependent on politics than natural selection. The March is a short poem about someone I know and admire greatly - a mother who has endured the loss of two of her daughters in a most dignified and heroic way. The Bus Stop was written as a 23 year old in the doomed attempt to figure out women. February Birthday 1974 and Blemishes are poems about loss. Air is a poem about the time I went for a pint with Jesus, Helen of Troy and an atheist called Christian. It was a messy night. |