Published in Overland Issue · Uncategorized Transcendental mathematics & our dreamer’s Estado Novo Paul Chicharo Yonder the rainbow gum by the mangrove choke point, which catches plastics and suburban stormwater debris where the river mouth kisses the lake and feeds algae and plankton and newly hatched schools of bluefish, we find a wood-chipper attached to a mechanical clown who moves its head from side to side and in its movements cleaves the mangrove choke. A mule pulls a golf course over the river’s mouth and a trumpet squelches and sputters as it sucks in the vein of the land, airships firebomb the neck and in the haze of the aftermath a helicopter drops a factory on the green of the 9th hole. The rainbow gum charred and full of life regenerates and spits flyers for discount mayonnaise. A single black cow dragging its teats over the cinder field moans for lantana berries or pokeweed. A one-legged boy wearing a hat with a propeller ambles over on his crutch and folds the cow into a jacket and drapes himself in it. Maggots the size of whales wriggle over the dead cities and hollow them. Read the rest of Overland 223 – If you liked this article, please subscribe or donate. Paul Chicharo Paul Chicharo is a senior intelligence operative for Dulex who defected from MK Ultra in 2027. Often re-purposes old refrigerators as plots in his local community garden. More by Paul Chicharo › 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 31 January 202531 January 2025 · Racism The QUT Symposium: holding the line against rising racism Elizabeth Strakosch, Jordy Silverstein, Crystal McKinnon, Eugenia Flynn, Natalie Ironfield, Holly Charles, Priya Kunjan, Roj Amedi and Lina Koleilat Last weeks's QUT Symposium met in the staunch tradition of the Brisbane Blacks, who have fought for sovereignty, land rights, liberation and an end to racial violence for decades. It was a gathering of Elders, academics, organisers and frontline community workers who speak, theorise and embody the truth about race and racism in this place. It refused to clothe itself in multicultural platitudes about tolerance, or to speak about racism only in terms of individual prejudice. 29 January 202529 January 2025 · Palestine The demonisation of the Palestine movement fuels anti-Muslim racism Mariam Tohamy and Miroslav Sandev The spate of anti-Muslim racist attacks around the country are being fuelled by the anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian policies of mainstream politicians. Political attempts to undermine the Palestine movement and bipartisan support for Israel’s genocide are causing this.
