Published in Overland Issue 240 Spring 2020 · Uncategorized Looms Elena Gomez are heavy to lug. think also of the weight of wool you crushed lichen & made a potion. There is bromine & it is a weakening agent the animals require care or Petter Dass & a sharp wit: a lamb’s head my large blue chest looms it blocks out the sun we scatter oral discs but there is a species at extinction bivalves cease to breed in the northern oceans ‘Swimming Inwards in Northern Norway’s Ocean’ Skyline, climate, badly Automated notions of colour Stylised & unrefined Relinquish a category, Supplement a movement Or its transformation A discovery as death Vegetable dye Spin linen Your bail in granular Beard lichen Spruce tree lichen Boil it briefly A pot of water at 80 degrees A madder root (for Hannah Ryggen) Read the rest of Overland 240 If you enjoyed this piece, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year Elena Gomez Elena Gomez is the author of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt (Puncher & Wattmann) and Body of Work (Cordite). She lives on unceded Wurundjeri country. More by Elena Gomez › 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 7 March 20257 March 2025 · Poetry 3 songs for Charles Darwin John Forbes begins with languor, / the past tense of caress / which, besides flies & heat haze / post stress, / the intense air supplies — no ostrich feather fans / or punkahs needed — just to be at rest. 5 March 20255 March 2025 · Human rights Showing what really matters to us: on Australia’s continuing failure to honour the UN Convention Against Torture Monique Hurley and Andreea Lachsz So why have there been no — or only limited — moves to implement the bare minimum obligations pursuant to the OPCAT? The answer appears to be a lack of political will and a dangerous disregard for the lives of people detained behind bars.
