Published in Overland Issue 229 Summer 2017 · Uncategorized Some climb Jonno Revanche offering me honours sorbet for heart-wrenching situations coffee sweetener wallpaper those months wondering the climate of your bed there were days when i was scarlet but quickly turned mandarine against mountains, tapestries, escape routes climbing the town of hobart fireworks suddenly have the ability to explode in the unseeable bow of the ocean fireworks suddenly have the ability to explode in the quietest part of me i’m not a little boy (but i am small) i long to do all the things the others get to do like publicities that ship me above and for another body to reel me in charmlets indent sleep skin trying on, conflicting to, explaining toward it missing it, that one time where / when i remembered feeling magical Read the rest of Overland 229 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Jonno Revanche Jonno Revanche is a writer based in the cross. More by Jonno Revanche › 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 June 2026 · Culture We were all workers on GeoCities Maria Dudko GeoCities remains an important reminder that collective labour on the internet is not new — and that recognising ourselves as workers is the first step towards organising as such. 4 29 May 202629 May 2026 · Politics Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Nick Riemer While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement.
