"Brentley Frazer is a radical poet, one of Australia's most troubling poet/editors - political, excitingly angry, playful - A Dark Samadhi is one of the best books of the 21st century, it is extraordinary - he's one of Australia's best..." - Todd Swift, London 2009

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SWIMMING WITH BOW LEGGED WOMEN

Published today at nthPosition Magazine (Paris, London) Swimming with bow legged women
Also available in my blog archive http://brentley.com/wordpress/2010/01/27/swimming-with-bow-legged-women/

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POEMS

NOMADIC ANACHRONISM BLUES

Nomadic Anachronism Blues
So Absence
touched one
the revolution within
unity, global, forever or shorter.
What White security?
Virus mutations in the laboratory.
Postulated symbiosis-
the innocent rage to survive-
assassins hidden in the very
utterances of their prayers.
Girls with animals
in the gardens
battle flags on the backs
of their cardigans
the habitual suicide of
soldiers- losing faith in
socialist bibles, mechanical
men, suddenly impassioned.
It is forgotten in women-
surrendered- intrepid, seen
as [...]

POEMS

SWIMMING WITH BOW LEGGED WOMEN

Swimming with bow legged Women
Sometimes, when possessed by a craving for an ornate day
my very thinking becomes florid, cursive, prone to rolling my
vowels – dotting my little I’s with a love heart, like an idiot who
rows out in a storm. Other days I am like Captain Quint , and I
give a toast to swimming with [...]