hutt 2.5 - special 2nd bonus birthday issue
  hutt - special 2nd bonus birthday issue
 
 
joanne burns is a Sydney poet. Her latest book, footnotes of a hammock, (Five Islands Press, 2004) was joint winner of the 2005 ACT Arts Judith Wright Poetry Prize for a published collection of poems by an Australian poet.

 

 
   
joanne burns - blink

in the prescient vestibule
forgotten pop lyrics unfurl
in fragments, snack food
for a neglected heart, random
& compelling, unlike hotel
chocolate on a plumped up
five star pillow, smoke detectors
blink; ghost jukebox, its unexpected
visitations more affectionate than a tower
of pre-loved diaries, toppled sideways in a trunk