10 September 202110 October 2021 Main Posts / Friday Poetry / Friday Features Poetry | Losing your hearing Jocelyn Deane as in not an event but the unspooling as in not working from definitions a new state to declaim “ok, this is normal now”, but conscious of hollowing, the dark souls of sense data a wasp’s nest growing in the walls, mulch by mulch, stucco bulging from paste and saliva, growing around a queen or void as in the moments raining, you stand next to the tram stop, before a car skids on the grooves in the wet road, screeching into an ice-cream parlour before you know what is happening, and the quiet afterwards, before walking to check the driver the safety belt turned to fire as in the overnight train from Sydney to Melbourne bare fields visible only through the juxtaposition to 65 million year old light, saying nothing has changed, nothing changes, nothing is happening, and you trying to pin-point the second one thing transitions into another falling asleep, waking up in the suburbs, suddenly the CBD skyline in the distance Overland’s Friday Features project is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Jocelyn Deane Josie/Jocelyn Deane is a freelance editor/programmer living in Naarm (Melbourne). Their work has appeared in various journals, including Overland, Australian Poetry, SCUM magazine and Rabbit journal. They were one the recipients for the 2020 Queensland Poetry Festival Ekphrasis prize. They are non-binary. More by Jocelyn Deane 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 3 March 20233 March 2023 Poetry Poetry | 2 rat poems by joanne burns joanne burns the courtyard rat squatting on an empire of pizza boxes rainsoaked piles of stewing cardboard flattened packaging from long covid's eager merchandise anything to transcend an unimagined plague rat traps line the walls like doctors' obsolete portmanteaux from a much earlier decade First published in Overland Issue 228 24 February 202317 March 2023 Main Posts Final Results of the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize Editorial Team Overland, the judges and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation are thrilled to announce the final results of the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize.