Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020 · Poetry two monitors Zoe Kingsley i two monitors the cop & neighbour in your head duplicity in systems the sprinkler is wetting everything ii you’re a texan now ownership, sitting on the horse rock hudson stroking the fringe the pink & blue blankets the rabbits hanging from the belt buckle iii sorry we missed you august orange stickiness on the kitchen table soup splatter on the floors & black mould in the grout, its beige breakfast beige weetbix beige tea iv corn jack catherine keener grey sky & splattered seagull on the road zombie customers v a lost year is good to have Read the rest of Overland 239 If you enjoyed this piece, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year Zoe Kingsley Zoe Kingsley is a writer based in Narrm/Melbourne. Her poetry and essays can be read in publications such as Cordite Poetry Review, Rabbit, The Happy Hypocrite and Textual Practice. She is deputy editor (poetry) at The Suburban Review. More by Zoe Kingsley › 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 5 November 2025 · Poetry Force posture agreement Miroslav Sandev The men of Darwin have all taken their rottweilers / out for a walk at the same time. / For our protection. Like Pine Gap: / all those big white eyes that scan / the darkening horizon. / The eyes stay woke, so that we may sleep. / Or so they say. 1 22 August 202522 August 2025 · Poetry starmight K.A Ren Wyld Ending genocide and apartheid is the story. Palestinian liberation is the story. / Aboriginal rights is the story. Truth, justice, treaties and land back is the story. / Global Indigenous peoples’ solidarity and joy is the story. Kinship is the story.
