Monday, 13 October 2025

#2114 - haywire

 



2114

6.286

14.x.25

haywire

ekphrastic for Helen Wright’s ‘the collapse of fun’

in Launceston’s QV Art Gallery

 

 

having climbed this way to be where

 

you swallowed all

 

spun like a gear lost

coiled for a spring

 

symmetries slipped and flung

 

a wheel of birds now gone

 

lifting

who’ll argue?

 

little wheels fan vast machines

 

we’re all among the stars

a field thereof packed tight

tricked in with distance

near occlusion

 

each whirring soundlessly

 

we won’t call it a tune

won’t say words not to be known

 

these wild tails wag us all 




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