Published in Overland Issue 228 Spring 2017 · Uncategorized Breath Allis Hamilton i m i t c t f t t i c o n y n h r o a h h o f e a l e e w u w b S c s l o l y i r i f k p i l f n d o n e b r i e n o a d u t a e e g a g c l e i r e t r e k a l r r h i z f a l i c n a i o i s s n i o a w f n r n g f m m h o w g f c e e e r h m t r a o w n m e e i h o l f e t b s n a l i z l o y i r e s e t l a i t s n t h i l i s t h c h e v e t a b a l m i e a s y u i i r i i s s d r b s s o m s t n t b u a t a t i y l m h n t r h t n o e i e d e o s e h k u n a n r e l r o u r b e i f s d r g s n e l o g n m f a a u a i o t s n o m s r h s d n e t t y y c i o g c f n r e o d o r e u n n w s d e e e s k s Read the rest of Overland 228 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Allis Hamilton Allis Hamilton is an artist, musician, and teller of folk tales. She collects memories and discarded nests. She is a joint convener of ‘PoetiCas’, Castlemaine’s Poetry Readings. Her poems are published in Australia, England and Ireland. More by Allis Hamilton › 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 1 May 20261 May 2026 · Long read Dungeons & Dragons is a waste of time: an unproductive case for radical action Scott Hudson Another such casualty is the push of AI into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Used in this way, AI purports to hack your recreational time, allowing you to maximise it by smoothing over the nitty gritty. But the thing is, the joy of D&D is the nitty gritty. AI promises to improve the productivity of work and leisure, but much of D&D thrives on being unproductive. 30 April 2026 · Housing Organised abandonment and Victoria’s Big Housing Build Oli Caruana-Brown and Ella McNicol The crisis is not due to a physical shortage of properties. Rather, it is a series of intentional decisions by Governments to prioritise a system of private property over peoples’ basic human need for shelter, allowing landlords and corporations to continue to hoard housing and extract wealth from tenants via rent.