Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 199 Winter 2010 · Writing / Main Posts Resurrection Plants at Nookaminnie Rock John Kinsella They’re full-blown in their early spring rush – pin cushions a fakir’s bed of nails so soft to tread on, so easy to make false comparisons by, and all the baggage that carries – rest-break on a granite slab looking out over the island sea of scrub shaded with formations beneath a green lagoon’s surface. It’s what we bring to the apogee before the drying-off, dead crunch beneath our feet as rock- dragons wake to the heat, and emphatic belief that the dead will stay dead and there will be no lift, no rebirth, wherever you come from, whatever you believe. Step carefully around these wreaths hooked into granite sheen, holdalls for a soil-less ecology, a carpet you know would say so much more if your boots were off and skin touched life brought back, restored, gifted, bristling with death because death is the most alive district to inhabit. We could say so much more if only we had the time. John Kinsella John Kinsella’s new work includes the story collection Pushing Back (Transit Lounge, 2021), Saussure's Kaleidoscope Graphology Drawing-Poems (Five Islands Press/Apothecary Archive, 2021) and The Ascension of Sheep: Collected Poems Volume 1 (UWAP, 2022). More by John Kinsella › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.