Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.
OVERLAND 192 spring 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-9-0 published 31 August 2008
NOCTURNE
(Melbourne dusk)
The occupancy rates (more cradles. Immediately!) up this shut-doored city of tram-song and grey
outpost principalities hammerfalling and vacuumed, guidebook flowerbeds daubed KEEP OUT
below onceuponatime rain the hysteria, bright as chandeliers in bones the churchbells
hollow-mouthed on knolls and swivel-chaired dilettanti, dynastic in their clockwork minds. Do not
fool with the lightswitches here: utter in your best Zen to the click click clicking of mortgaged heels.
© Dan Disney Overland 192 – spring 2008, p. 83
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