It shouldn’t be like this
not
so long after: the hunter and the hunted
oppressor and oppressed: so much later
but now
still playing games with mirrors
still replicating that face
you look
in every crowd
you note
the set of her shoulders (whose?): the way
she moves
the planes of her features: tense
all symmetry and conspiracy
all over, so much later
over now:
it shouldn’t be like this
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Worked in the Australian rock music industry as a journalist and published widely as a poet before moving to London and spending the better part of a decade in advertising agencies. Returned to Australia and tried teaching, primarily teaching English to non-English speaking, newly-arrived refugees but also briefly as a high school classroom teacher. Has travelled Western Europe, North Africa, Russia, Northern India, East Asia, coastal USA, some Pacific Islands, and Australia.
