Published in Overland Issue 229 Summer 2017 Uncategorized To the only begetter Aidan Coleman For WH Like rope and pulley work to hold up pink and stodgy cherubs. Like the apple of my iPhone, faint of charge. Like the superfluity of biker’s arms or the big and little words of lovers’ cells. Like the stylised tantrum of youth rejecting the tutelage you feigned. Like shy graffiti or the bling of cases. Like the cashing trees. Like toddlers hovering at the margins, where dragons used to be, or a high-speed ransack of outdoors. Like sudden mushrooms blooming pages between or the screwdriver of your pocket knife taken to canvases. Like your skywriting jet gunned down mid-cliché. These trifles. Read the rest of Overland 229 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Aidan Coleman Aidan Coleman has published two poetry collections, the most recent, Mount Sumptuous (Wakefield Press, 2020). He is an Early Career Researcher at the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. More by Aidan Coleman 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 30 January 202331 January 2023 History On class as a product of struggle Jared Davidson An understanding of class as a relationship and a process, and the expanded terrain of class struggle that comes with it, has the potential to unearth or reappraise key events and narratives in our colonial pasts. First published in Overland Issue 228 27 January 202331 January 2023 Unions In attacking us, they bring us together Sam Wallman 'What these bosses don't understand is that in attacking us, they bring us together.' (Paddy Crumlin, Maritime Union of Australia, Svitzer Rally November 2022)
