Published in Overland Issue 204 Spring 2011 · Main Posts Stuff of Sleep and Dreams Peter Rose Looking up, the players have gone. Punctual as death, dogs sniff their way otherwhere. A woman in a cosmic hat strings a flag between saplings, lies on her back – waiting. For whom do we ever wait? Not the team, yet the team returns. What have they shared among the trees, whom importuned? A stray psychological sign drifts across the field, omened. Peter Rose is a poet, memoirist and novelist as well as being the editor of Australian Book Review. His new novel, Roddy Parr, has just been released by 4th Estate. © Peter Rose Overland 204-spring 2011, p. 115 Like this piece? Subscribe! Peter Rose More by Peter Rose › 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 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. 16 August 202416 August 2024 · Poetry pork lullaby Panda Wong but an alive pig / roots in the soil /turning it over / with its snout / softening the ground / is this a hymn
