Herald Patches
(i) 2024: now
The minister for environment considers
Julimar forest’s availability for mining
more important than its preservation.
The chief executive officer of Chalice
couldn’t agree more, and praises
the official refusal to ‘sterilise’
the forest’s ‘potential’. This is not
surrealism but a radical departure
from the unconscious. There is violence
in city offices that spills out beyond
low maintenance office plants, spills
into the forest where fewer images
move as marsupials, lift as cockatoos.
Rhythm heralds consciousness.
(ii) 2019: prior
Rhythm heralds consciousness.
We seed an awareness in the vibrissae.
Each livid patch, each resounding itch
brings attention to the greater body.
One appears, then others. They will
scratch till the skin is damaged
beyond repair. Make holes that can’t heal.
A full scale ‘green’ battery industry
charges the assault. It’s a psychology
that goes back years. Take the 2019
Indo-Pacific Defence Conference
held at Crown Towers in ‘Perth’,
with a keynote on ‘defence industry
applications for WA's battery
minerals and resources expertise’.
‘Green’ revolution destroying
all it contacts then making atopic collapse.
A minister’s or miner’s dream journal.
A billionaire’s spacewalking view
of Earth. A dermatologist’s similitude.
(iii) now unto ‘the future’
A dermatologist’s similitude.
Lost trees heaped for burning
when up on the rise the house
of the Big Whites overheats.
Largesse in the ore. Workers’
accommodation. Minesite infra-
structure heralding State sanction.
Words on the signs or the signs
themselves can be changed ipso facto.
Skill set. Application. Blue pencilled,
each patch is forgotten. Bubble chart
of raw data. Species lists. Red list data.
Environmental scientists, technicians,
supervisors, co-ordinators: on payrolls.
Higher education for the conscious
and unconscious. Illustrators.
Consumers. And open cut or under-
grounded into the discursive,
the body map
is drilled into place.
John Kinsella
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