Published in Overland Issue 204 Spring 2011 Main Posts The twin stacks Adam Formosa Dirty skirts bunch and glow – soaring out of streetlights & glide down Cringila Road. Those slow turns unfold, coiling to curl in the street, cresting gold. ‘Tonight’s Sambuca, with roast coffee, baklava and Mouleet!’ I run home from the bus, alone. The stacks boast & collect the day’s rust, balancing a corroded steelwork halo. Mouleet floats through six o’clock & I run past Cringila bowlo’ past rustling bin-bags and barking rottweilers taking flight over their rattling deadlocks. I step past a cousin, a real squealer, stop him & ask if he knows my name. Halos flare in height, whirlpooling down blaring brightly, blazing tarnished clouds into to syncopated dust: bursting back a pinwheel flame. It shrivels down into its copper-capped cigarette, & cinders in rust. He steps on its butt twists a foot & mouths our Maltese surname. Adam Formosa is a third year creative writing student at the University of Wollongong. He was recently published in the Best Australian Poetry 2010. © Adam Formosa Overland 204−spring 2011, p. 119 Like this piece? Subscribe! Adam Formosa Adam Formosa is a NSW South Coast-based poet, whose best work comes out while listening to Deadmau5. More by Adam Formosa 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 11 November 202211 November 2022 Main Posts On the last day of Subscriberthon, our amazing online editor gives you one last (very good) reason to subscribe Editorial team What's in store for the last day of Subscriberthon? First published in Overland Issue 228 10 November 202210 November 2022 Main Posts On the second-last day of Subscriberthon, our favourite editor-duo give you reason #1002 to subscribe to Overland Editorial team What's in store for the second-last day of Subscriberthon?