Published in Overland Issue 219 Winter 2015 · Uncategorized Flow Airini Beautrais To the stone, to the hill, to the heap, to the seep, to the drip, to the weep, to the rock, to the rill, to the fell, to the wash, to the splash, to the rush, to the bush, to the creep, to the hush; to the down, to the plain, to the green, to the drift, to the rift, to the graft, to the shift, to the break, to the shake, to the lift, to the fall, to the roll, to the wall, to the cleft, to the call; to the bend, to the wend, to the wind, to the run, to the roam, to the rend, to the seam, to the foam, to the scum, to the moss, to the mist, to the grist, to the grind, to the grain, to the dust; to the core, to the gorge, to the grove, to the cave, to the dive, to the shore, to the grave, to the give, to the leave, to the oar, to the song, to the tongue, to the ring, to the roar, to the sung; to the surge, to the flood, to the blood, to the urge to the rage, to the rod, to the rood, to the vein, to the chain, to the town, to the wide, to the tide, to the breadth, to the depth, to the side; to the neap, to the spring, to the deep, to the drag, to the fog, to the stick, to the slick, to the log, to the twig, to the tug, to the roil, to the shell, to the swell, to the ebb, to the well, to the sea. Airini Beautrais More by Airini Beautrais › 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 20 December 202420 December 2024 · Reviews Slippery totalities: appendices on oil and politics in Australia and beyond Scott Robinson Kurmelovs writes at this level of confusion and contradiction for an audience whose unspoken but vaguely progressive politics he takes for granted and yet whose assumed knowledge resembles that of an outraged teenager. There should be a young adult genre of political journalism to accommodate books like this. 19 December 202419 December 2024 · Reviews Reading JH Prynne aloud: Poems 2016-2024 John Kinsella Poems 2016-2024 is a massive, vibrant and immersive collation of JH Prynne’s small press publication across this period. Some would call it a late life creative flourish, a glorious coda, but I don’t see it this way. Rather, this is an accumulation of concerns across a lifetime that have both relied on earlier form work and newly "discovered" expressions of genre that require recasting, resaying, and varying.