Published in Overland Issue 227 Winter 2017 · Uncategorized Syndromes and a century* Luke Beesley Don’t star/t anything. Keep your _and on a pencil the film will follow. Lift your arms. French for the snack of water from your reach into your bubbling brain. Here is a limb-tangent. Get on the level. Open your eyes – feeling. Corridor the open shoe lace. Clip chips that peal from your tennis indoors – those little squeaks. Upright pain. Panda/Pandora – no matter. We eat inside Jeff Koons’ bubble gum rare eclipse. It’s a sensitivity caused self protection. Don’t doubt it. Don’t begin. Film ¾ of the custard colonised door, no less. Cutlery tides, waterfall tricks. A lover buys her lover clothes. They never fit. Image: Corridor / Jenya Kushnir Read the rest of Overland 227 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Luke Beesley Luke Beesley is a Melbourne-based poet. His fourth poetry collection, Jam Sticky Vision, was published by Giramondo in 2015. More by Luke Beesley › 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 24 April 202624 April 2026 · Friday Poetry A slam dunk publication Michael Farrell Australians said, landed among manatees, did useful, / neatnesses, knitted, pleasingly. Spared liaisons, amassed, / mortal dangers, unforeseen, nor kids, prayed aloud. 1 23 April 202623 April 2026 · The media The importance of democratic frequencies: on the threatened closure of 2SER Daz Chandler 2SER operates not just as a broadcaster, but as an incubator of democratic culture, its alumni carrying forward practices shaped by collaboration, dissent and accountability to community.
