Sunday, April 23, 2023

In Memory of Poet John Tranter (1943-2023)

 

Graphology Paraph 27: in memory of John Tranter

 

            Sydney... not the bush!

 

 

Away from the country town

towards the city, away from the Jindyworobaks

towards the New York School of Poetry.

 

Sheen in a skyscraper’s window

till we look closely and see the reflection

of another window, then another —

 

a cascading advertisement for real estate

we might occupy in the lexicons

of a pop-cult industry always

 

threatening to consume,

a drip-fed Babel ingraining

images extracted from movie tones,

 

images stencilled into news

of icebreakers or satellites

within satellites within satellites.

 

 

            John Kinsella

 

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