Published 29 January 20219 April 2021 · Friday Poetry / Main Posts Poetry | Canals Anders Villani and the salons remain open and your mother receives her prescription through an open car window and back doors open onto yards and low bone sky and casuals watch months open full-timers open redundancies portfolios find openings in steel and your mother lays her head in a basin of warm water in disbelief the flow doesn’t open across her face and open praise for the next face and salt opens eggplant hydrants and back doors open onto yards with corellas low bone figs and your father fills prescriptions teaches parents to open tablets to powder apple juice and your father’s mother tongue sings open balcony doors floods canals and the hair of the dead keeps growing the nails and the salons of the living keep open the living Anders Villani Anders Villani holds an MFA from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program, where he received the Delbanco Prize for poetry. His first book, Aril Wire, was released in 2018 by Five Islands Press. He lives in Melbourne. www.andersvillani.com More by Anders Villani › 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 25 October 20244 November 2024 · Poetry Phar Lap Ender Başkan we have a horse in our shed dad look dad me and gabe are feeding him grass he likes grass he eats grass and chaff dad gabe said his name is phar lap dad come on phar lap! i got some grass for yooooou! 4 October 202418 October 2024 · Main Posts Announcing the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers 2024 longlist Editorial Team Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, established in 2014 and now in its ninth year, recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia.
