hutt 3.1
  hutt - hill end, australia
 
 
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 - leak

where could a trail of tissues
lead, the handkerchief was such an indiscreet
affair and burdened by its history
pinned to a breast or pocket -
users drop tissues like
old skin or five cent pieces
though ideology may prevent
sniffing in some places a possé
of nostrils may pay off for the prairie
magus if the cacti don't leak and
the horses don't crave a gymkhana