Published in Overland Issue 209 Summer 2012 · Uncategorized The Ear Especially Corey Wakeling You don’t need eschatology to see the finitude in all this. Cantilever arm of all sweetness, pinions of every description in the sinew of its reaching out. And towards what? The globe is fine corpulence, the flesh of the ear especially, vigour of sports car on wet May bitumen slighting the bone catacomb smart. Paris, hello. Where have you hidden my brother, and Now, my brother’s brotherhood. There is a Southern Californian song about all of this that eschatology cannot penetrate. So stop, sweet claw of new day, digits clammy. The clay pits, to gasp with hand on back of head, to be lulled to sleep like the puppet infanta, side with brother clover and fatten wanton, lope the lambent disguise if but only in the moment of finitude. Need not finitude to see the sweetness in all of this that made eschatologies unrenewable, when instead, and we do know this, the fossil only comes twice, as in: all time under, the all time no time above. That grasp, darling hand, park your car, knowing restlessness and velocity in the woken, in the face. Corey Wakeling Corey Wakeling is a writer, scholar, and translator living in Tokyo. In 2013, he was granted a PhD in English and theatre studies at the University of Melbourne. Corey has lived in Japan since 2015, currently working as an associate professor of English literature at Aoyama Gakuin University. His most recent poetry collection, Uncle of Cats, appears with Cordite in 2024. 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 21 February 202521 February 2025 · The university Closing the noose: a dispatch from the front line of decasualisation Matthew Taft Across the board, universities have responded to legislation aimed at rectifying this already grim situation by halting casual hiring, cutting courses, expanding class sizes, and increasing the workloads of permanent staff. This is an unintended consequence of the legislation, yes, but given the nefarious history of the university, from systemic wage theft to bad-faith bargaining, hardly a surprising one. 19 February 2025 · Disability The devaluing of disability support Áine Kelly-Costello and Jonathan Craig Over the past couple of decades, disabled people in much of the Western world have often sought, or agreed to, more individualised funding schemes in order to gain greater “choice and control” over the support we receive. But the autonomy, dignity and flexibility we were promised seems constantly under threat or out of reach, largely because of the perception that allowing us such “luxuries” is too expensive.
