requiem
Gavin Yates
the brass creek has a mouthpiece
i dial randomly afraid of direct
contact as hail hammers the roof the eucalypts
everybody sidles a window
we know little of this the stilted dialogue
in the bathroom a train’s din down the port’s lip
venus is first to arrive
in the orca night then it perishes
in a cardigan i used to be a guitar
in a kitchen of brittle plates
edging for the tiles
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Gavin Yates is a doctoral candidate with Monash University. His research interests include Surrealism and Australian poetry. Gavin is co-editor of Verge 2017 (Monash University Publishing); his poetry has featured in Broadkill Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Snorkel, Tincture Journal, Verge, and Westerly, among others.