Poetry: Mark Young

Mark Young

Profligacy

In the last

ten minutes

of the old 

year he wrote 

six 200-page 

novels but dis-

carded them

all in the first

minute of the

new because 

he couldn’t 

think of an

appropriate 

title for 

any of them.

***

 

Tourmaline

&

eigenvalues

& the

other

faint

shifts & drifts

that

transcribe

the

window

in

place

of

rain.

***

 

First / ph(r)ase of / a morning raga

Which side

of myself

do I de-

cide to

side with

today?

***

The birds 

in the tree 

so small I 

see them as

movement

rather than

substance.

***

Sorry, Elon

     Used copies of

marine erosion & 

     glaciation have 

rear spoilers to

     minimize the effects 

of turbulence from

     passing electric cars. 

***

Mark Young was born in New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He has been publishing poetry for more than sixty years, & is the author of around sixty books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, & art history. His most recent books are The Toast, from Luna Bisonte Prods, The Sasquatch Walks Among Us, from Sandy Press, & Songs to Come for the Salamander, Poems 2013-2021, selected & introduced by Thomas Fink, co-published by Meritage Press & Sandy Press.

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Setu, April 2022