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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 a gift; it’s valuable don’t
drop it – offer it only in your
favor – like somehow showing
people how to visualize being
maimed in a car wreck will
positively influence the statistics.

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PORTRAIT OF HUNTER (from a photograph) - mixed media on canvas 10cm*10cm
$120.00 AUD includes postage/shipping worldwide - brentley@brentley.com

This  is the first in a new series of tiny 10cm square mixed media/paintings I am doing - Literary Idols

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April 2010 marks the 9th birthday of Retort Magazine, and despite languishing by the sidelines now and again thousands of readers still visit for a fix. We started out as a bi-monthly online zine, then started publishing monthly and then in 2004 we threw caution to the wind and started updating constantly, publishing whenever something cool arrived in the submissions inbox. Now, after much planning we have decided to go in the total opposite direction to every other publication and move to print. In 2010, hopefully around April, Retort Magazine will be a published as a quarterly print journal, RETORT QUARTERLY. Currently I am working very hard on the first issue with the accomplished Poets and Editors Adam Pettet (Brisbane, Australia) and Cralan Kelder (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). There will still be a very active website with news and updates, snippets and interviews etc and all of the current content will be archived and accessible for your reading and viewing pleasure. Stay tuned for more…

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