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 First published in Overland Issue 228 29 May 202330 May 2023 · The university Universities as tools of apartheid Nick Riemer In his new book Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023), Nick Riemer mounts a comprehensive argument for the institutional academic boycott of Israel. This edited extract outlines the central rationale for the boycott—Israeli universities’ institutional role in enabling apartheid, occupation and anti-Palestinianism. 2 First published in Overland Issue 228 26 May 202326 May 2023 · Fiction Fiction | garramilla/Darwin Lulu Houdini We sit in East Point Reserve and look at how the gidjaas, green ants, make globe-like homes out of the leaves — connected edges with fibrous tissue that I later learn is faithful silk. Safe inside. Why isn’t it safe outside? I pick up the plastic around this circular lake cause this is the way […]