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 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.