David Prater edits Cordite http://www.cordite.org.au. He lives in Melbourne, Australia. His first chapbook The Happy Farang (Pumpkin Press, 2000) concerned the adventures of a fictional tourist in Thailand and Laos. His second, 8 poems was published in 2002 by du papa (Melbourne). His work has appeared in Meanjin, Cordite, Jacket, slope, Going Down Swinging, JAAM, papertiger and Short Fuse: A Global Anthology of Fusion Poetry (Rattapallax Press, USA). |
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| the verb after the subject/ object placed reverse-chronologically/ back through the waning season breaks/ sentimentalal tradition/ accomplished exit/ train from the entrance/ pay/ upon departure or transfer/ validate when you have safely made it/ back home where the dishes remain/ unwashed from your yet to be digested dinner/ there on someone else's doorstep hours/ to kill now after it's time/ to return/ unmolested from the white light/ of carbon/ dating agencies/ electric with unexploded passions melancholy as the hour before/ mourning/ all the suns are sleeping/ & cows reverse park/ into the dark/ side of the scatalogical /moon |