Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing / Main Posts Lost Dog and its Breadcrumbs Kent MacCarter Thylacinus cynocephalus: ‘pouched dog with a wolf’s head’ I tracked hints an e-thylacine shrieked at the black market – a thicket of kitsch spruiked inside browsers’ pawn. Trickling wingdings apace in blogosphere talk inquisitive crumbs, pooch, your sandpapered answers Shone via protocol. Dropped, your parts found my cheers I gather up now into quilt-work of screenplay commanding roles based on your whereabouts, hunters web bots and spyware. Resellers’ briars ensnare why, Exhausted, your mass leapt into ether, portray how you scampered off Freycinet’s proxy to home pages for cover. FTP me the secret Domain. Majordomo, I’m on to your game-time and know at which DNS your camouflage lords firewalls lend poor insulation from howls, their chords Kent MacCarter Kent MacCarter is a writer and editor who lives in Castlemaine, with his wife and son. He is the author of three poetry collections: In the Hungry Middle of Here (Transit Lounge, 2009), Sputnik’s Cousin (Transit Lounge, 2014) and California Sweet (Five Islands Press, 2018). He is managing editor of Cordite Poetry Review and publisher of Cordite Books. More by Kent MacCarter › 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 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. First published in Overland Issue 228 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.