Published in Overland Issue 232 Spring 2018 · Uncategorized Peripheral drift Zenobia Frost Turns out you can still pash in a graveyard at 28, though by now my fear of spooks has faded into a more realistic fear of people. There’s a torch in my back pocket. Her hands smell of graveyard moss and bug repellent flush with riverside humidity; mosquitoes hunt us hot and damp on the edge. Figures scuttling in the dark. Later, the sceptic tour guide explains how we interpret threats in our peripheral vision: shapes in the rear-view could be anything, but they’re probably not the undead. Right now, we’re waiting for the tour to start, deciding whether holding hands is a thing. The night this country tallied its paper yesses, that’s what we were finally saying to each other. This week was the first time someone yelled a slur from a car since I was a teenager. ‘If only people would mistake me for a boy when it’s convenient,’ she said, not taking her hands off me then, or now, even when we hear a branch crack, or blink at torches fluorescing the trunks of gum trees. Read the rest of Overland 232 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Zenobia Frost Zenobia Frost is a poet from Brisbane whose latest collection, After the Demolition (Cordite Books), explores pop culture, queer joy, place attachment and belonging. She recently received a Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. More by Zenobia Frost › 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 30 April 202530 April 2025 · Television Andor in the genocide Patrick Marlborough To discuss season two of Disney’s Andor without discussing the genocide in Gaza would be both morally and intellectually disingenuous, and cowardly in a way that stains. Tony Gilroy knows this, despite his press-tour pussyfooting. Disney more than knows this, and I’m sure they’ve been rehearsing their response to the incoming discourse for months, if not since Gilroy first handed in the scripts. 28 April 202530 April 2025 · Reviews A vocabulary of struggle: Gluckstein and Stone’s The Radical Jewish Tradition Graham Willett The relevance of the Radical Jewish Tradition today — and it is an urgent one — is not that it offers a guide to campaigning against antisemitism (though revealing this history is its great achievement); rather, it is that it reminds us on the value of working-class struggle.