Published in Overland Issue 223 Winter 2016 · Uncategorized Luminosity Shale Preston Your teeth Rest momentarily On your Christina Rossetti lips But your eyes Thankfully Contain no hint of piety And devotional poetry Is as far from my mind As the spacecraft That is presently Sending images of The surprising Mountain Sitting In a moat On the surface of Pluto’s icy moon Read the rest of Overland 223 – If you liked this article, please subscribe or donate. Shale Preston Shale Preston is an Honorary Research Fellow in the English Department at Macquarie University. Her publications include Dickens and the Despised Mother: A Critical Reading of Three Autobiographical Novels (2013) and the co-edited Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature (2015). More by Shale Preston › 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 24 April 202624 April 2026 · Friday Poetry A slam dunk publication Michael Farrell Australians said, landed among manatees, did useful, / neatnesses, knitted, pleasingly. Spared liaisons, amassed, / mortal dangers, unforeseen, nor kids, prayed aloud. 1 23 April 202623 April 2026 · The media The importance of democratic frequencies: on the threatened closure of 2SER Daz Chandler 2SER operates not just as a broadcaster, but as an incubator of democratic culture, its alumni carrying forward practices shaped by collaboration, dissent and accountability to community.
