Published in Overland Issue 223 Winter 2016 · Uncategorized elliptic ecliptic Leif Mahoney to John Tranter ‘I had read in books that art is not easy’ that words hide themselves in dark corners no-one warned of the colourful spires milking evaporated carnations the emeralds phone brightly in’s Brooke painted with Betty Windsor and Bert Newton a chiaroscuro pear glowing with charisma drifting through intelligent mist in search of speed turned red in the night do electric sheep dream of silver marigolds reflecting by quiet reflections ever so ever so ever. Read the rest of Overland 223 – If you liked this article, please subscribe or donate. Leif Mahoney Leif Mahoney is a former architect and art gallery director, who is an art language artist. His major project has been the abstract dada novel Nunawading. More by Leif Mahoney › 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 22 November 202422 November 2024 · Fiction A map of underneath Madeleine Rebbechi They had been tangled together like kelp from the age of fourteen: sunburned, electric Meg and her sidekick Ruth the dreamer, up to all manner of sinister things. So said their parents; so their teachers reported when the two girls were found down at the estuary during a school excursion, whispering to something scaly wriggling in the reeds. 21 November 202421 November 2024 · Fiction Whack-a-mole Sheila Ngọc Phạm We sit in silence a few more moments as there is no need to talk further; it is the right place to end. There is more I want to know but we had revisited enough of the horror for one day. As I stood up to thank Bác Dzũng for sharing his story, I wished I could tell him how I finally understood that Father’s prophecy would never be fulfilled.
