Published in Overland Issue 206 Autumn 2012 Uncategorized My Hounds Corey Wakeling My hounds will never find me, even with the cracks in the tabula rasa. They, after all, have the lyrebird to discover. It will be the Yarra today and for all of tomorrow, though the hawthorn has otherwise captivated my love, though no passage seems to proceed thence. I wasn’t born here and so the Yarra is brown and glossy. The statuary province including Charles George Gordon might bear a basking irrelevance but our hats betray our vagrancy by the Yarra. We sit awhile. The hounds will never find me, my hounds or otherwise, the Yarra yellowing like a similarly withering dandelion overshadowed by the best red gum. She takes pictures of canoes and freshmen, is otherwise captivated by the hawthorn. Princes Bridge outlines the prevailing picture of surveillance and skullcaps, providing the lectern and rostrum to a city proscenium. What emptiness! Still absent. It must be the wigs and the gathered yokes and the black coats the hounds are in thrall of, then. Corey Wakeling Corey Wakeling is a poet and critic living in Takarazuka, Japan. His second full-length collection of poems is The Alarming Conservatory (Giramondo, 2018). More by Corey Wakeling 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 24 March 202324 March 2023 War Conga line to Armageddon: the rush to get us into a war with China Ben Brooker It shouldn’t need spelling out that Australia could not win a war with China in any sense that matters, even with the backing of the US and its allies. At best, such a victory would be a Pyrrhic one. At worst, we would be so utterly humiliated as to not even know what kind of defeat had been inflicted upon us. First published in Overland Issue 228 23 March 2023 Trans rights Why gender essentialism is a white supremacist ideology Maddison Stoff The idea that these neo-Nazis are just ‘cosplayers’, rather than the local version of an international and decades-long attempt by numerous lone wolves and paramilitary groups to seize control of multiple countries, is too dangerous to seriously contemplate. The better question might be: why do so many anti-trans rights activists, who often see themselves as left-wing or self-describe as feminists, tolerate or downplay the presence of Nazis in their circles? And, just as importantly, why do neo-Nazis show up to support them?
