Published in Overland Issue 230 Autumn 2018 · Uncategorized Lights of home Chris Brown Woke up stockinged blindfolded disarranged over Ashgabat – 2 ½ romances surely about lands us at the crawling border – Dulled unfaithful apples threatening the plague as you pay – There were spectacular grounds for mistaking it for home – Bold signs that read like mama and café like taxi and home – Like all the pictures and promises the exotic couldn’t keep – The camirror in the cam-era fronting the same procession – Except the pressures of capitalism were even greater here Like the famed sun much in one’s face and seemed to be Cursing then even stalking if soon ever after loving us – For who in the single diminishing instant we had become – Then the northern spring in bubble jackets our worlds – Comparable commensurable separable teased apart in Levels of address some time later in the fricative trill in Frescoes of the eucharist or prayer lost language in the Grammatical foundations and if we’re nurtured in a tri Angulated hearing on marbleveined stairs we bring that Piece of home with us that was waiting and cling to it Read the rest of Overland 230 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Chris Brown lives in Newcastle where he works as a teacher. bulky news press published his chapbook, slender Volume, in 2017. More by Chris Brown › 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 2024 · History Anzac Day and the half-remembered history of the Anzacs in Palestine Bill Abrahams and Lucy Honan Schools are deliberate targets for government-funded mystification about Australia’s role in wars. Such instances of official remembrance crowd out the realities of war, and the consequences of Australia’s role in imperialism. As teachers, we should strive to resist this, and we should introduce our students to a fuller understanding of the history of the Anzacs. 22 April 2024 · Gaming Game-death in infinite game-worlds: Darkest Dungeon 2 Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne Death is the ultimate stamp of value. It was invented to sell arcade-like 1 Up repetition to the home market. To read politics in videogames is to learn to read necropolitically, which is why gamers don’t like politics.