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 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 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 27 March 202427 March 2024 · Cartoons Visas for Palestinians: let them in Sam Wallman Sam Wallman makes the case for a visa scheme for Palestinians fleeing the war on Gaza.