Published in Overland Issue 236 Spring 2019 · Uncategorized Things fall away Anne Elvey the moment a tree consoles with its rooted stem that stands and asserts what you also bear toward the coherence of earth. A mutual ken crosses species between things that travel and things that stay in place. Leaves give wind its multiple voice as they shift your long recollection of a soul’s green night. You are again a girl. Skip Skip Skip the tor on the pavement. Hop Hop Hop over chalked lines. You retreat from old need. A dog rests her head in your lap. A magpie seems to know how you feel about song. Read the rest of Overland 236 If you liked this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year Anne Elvey Anne Elvey is a poet, editor and researcher, living on unceded Bunurong Country. Her most recent poetry collections are Leaf (Liquid Amber Press, 2022) and Obligations of Voice (Recent Work Press, 2021). “Intents” is forthcoming with Liquid Amber Press in 2025. Anne holds honorary appointments at Monash University and University of Divinity, Naarm/Melbourne. https://sunglintdrift.com/ More by Anne Elvey › 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 21 February 202521 February 2025 · The university Closing the noose: a dispatch from the front line of decasualisation Matthew Taft Across the board, universities have responded to legislation aimed at rectifying this already grim situation by halting casual hiring, cutting courses, expanding class sizes, and increasing the workloads of permanent staff. This is an unintended consequence of the legislation, yes, but given the nefarious history of the university, from systemic wage theft to bad-faith bargaining, hardly a surprising one. 19 February 2025 · Disability The devaluing of disability support Áine Kelly-Costello and Jonathan Craig Over the past couple of decades, disabled people in much of the Western world have often sought, or agreed to, more individualised funding schemes in order to gain greater “choice and control” over the support we receive. But the autonomy, dignity and flexibility we were promised seems constantly under threat or out of reach, largely because of the perception that allowing us such “luxuries” is too expensive.
