Published in Overland Issue 235 Winter 2019 · Uncategorized The waiting Ouyang Yu In a play, someone living is pretending to be someone dead Someone dead comes alive in another name That’s one way to look at history Or to make it Track changes, all marked up Change without a trace That’s another way to look at history Or to correct it Things are born in the wrong They wait to be put right The waiting is called history The waiting is long Image: Jonathan Adeline on Unsplash Read the rest of Overland 235 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year Ouyang Yu Ouyang Yu is a poet based in Melbourne and since his first arrival in April 1991 in Australia, he has published quite a few poems. His eighth novel, All the Rivers Run South, is forthcoming with Puncher & Wattmann in 2023. More by Ouyang Yu › 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 27 September 2024 · Poetry Because a wind blazes Dženana Vucic Because after autumn there are / other autumns, / we learn to eat the wind. / This is what we shall do / with all our anger. 25 September 2024 · Art The desire of others: on the struggle around the building of ATSIAGA in Alice Springs Kathryn Gilbey and Beth Sometimes There is an older chapter to the originating mythology of this saga that has been obscured. We write to register these ghosts in the architecture and alert a farther-afield readership to the latest wave of grassroots protest happening now.
