Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 199 Winter 2010 · Writing / Main Posts There's a bomb on this train of thought Cameron Fuller Loaded with raw materials: colons, commas, fragments of broken grammar. This poem is wired with faulty rhetoric and ideas strapped to the author’s chest. Sensitive to sudden movement, it won’t reach the final station and its metaphors won’t survive the ride to their logical conclusions. It is not afraid to shout in MAXIMAL CAPS or exclaim emotions are explosive! But it stays silent, containing its secret until the end. It believes poetry is full of risk and targets innocent readers. It spurns the ease of paraphrase and the violence of bullet points. But it can’t afford the precision of laser guided imagery. All it has is the shrapnel of language, the lingua franca of blood connecting the heart and brain. This poem is a dirty bomb. It is designed to detonate when your eyes reach the final word. Cameron Fuller Cameron Fuller is based in Adelaide but has lived in Brisbane, Sydney, Cairns and Canberra. He is a PhD student at the University of South Australia and a poetry co-editor of Wet Ink magazine. More by Cameron Fuller › 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 11 December 202411 December 2024 · Writing The trouble Ken Bolton’s poems make for me, specifically, at the moment Linda Marie Walker These poems doom me to my chair and table and computer. I knew it was all downhill from here, at this age, but it’s been confirmed. My mind remains town-size, hemmed in by pine plantations and kanite walls and flat swampy land and hills called “mountains”. 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.
