Welcome Back The Woman-flesh Illusionist

October 25, 2021

 

it came again    the vertigo       in blackness

on the pillow    pinball eyes a head 

on gimbals        stillness            cut loose 

from shadow    this rackety slalom

of nothings                   art   hallucination 

and

I can’t say

when you got more stable         when

I got same         whose head 

we are looking out of    

I think

it likely             makes a difference 

you’d

say       only if it’s me 

you’d say 

that you           don’t

understand       my voice

incomprehensible        like

the bird sounds            

or reading entrails           a highly specific          task      

I’m diverted     

into a small dog             chasing tail       because

someone’s        at the door 

spin

it’s long enough            

to forget           you say

I can’t say 

 

 

 

 

Kerri Shying

Kerri Shying is the author of four poetry collections, most recently knitting mangrove roots (Flying IslandsPress, 2019) and Know Your Country (Puncher and Wattman, 2021). She is of Wiradjuri and Chinese family and is also a visual and fibre artist and a respected disability advocate

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