Published in Overland Issue 220 Spring 2015 · Uncategorized A sky open and shut Sam Langer One day later on a later day in the year of some animal apposition on the globe and on the roof that is not just us, but still warm tin, but sunlight only on Rucker’s Hill, seen by rolling onto our left sides, optimistic and depressed somehow cognate on my birthday strangers grown up in neighbourhoods, comparable sociologically the veggies muting staggered in shadow growths and the smell of that flower that opens all night, those nights that call us out, into the clement, changing open to walk, change touching in our pockets or to sit in displayed enjoyment, euphemistic of each other though obviously not of any beyond say the river east where sky wipes towards free night and the upfield line west the sky over the parkville youth centre Sam Langer Sam Langer was born in Melbourne but lives in Berlin. He edits Steamer and has published two chapbooks: Law You Can Eat (Munted Beyond Press) and Topaz (Bulky News Press). More by Sam Langer › 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 3 May 20243 May 2024 · open letter Open Letter to Vice-Chancellor Dawn Freshwater from Auckland University Staff in Solidarity with Students Protesting for Palestine Auckland University Staff in Solidarity with Students As members of staff of the University of Auckland, we are deeply concerned by your announcement of 30 April 2024 advising students and staff of your decision to not support the establishment of an overnight encampment by students protesting in solidarity with Palestine. 26 April 202426 April 2024 · Aotearoa / New Zealand “Ration the Queen’s veges”: Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the poetics of erasure Toyah Webb In Te Waka Hourua’s intervention, I read a refusal of this binary. By using black spray paint to erase all but a few words and phrases, the activists transform the figuratively white “backdrop” into the legible difference that stands out against the illegible redaction. Yet it is this redaction’s very illegibility that demands to be read — not as difference, but as a radical contestation of colonial world-making.