Ian Smith

poems by Ian Smith

 Brochure as Memento Mori   Former Calulu Post Office it says, High Ceilings. Lots of Shedding conjures a wry verb. Verandahs, Porches, twist my heart with love as artless as these framed angles are artful. Historic Old Charmer the board blares. I am up for auction, I jest, but nobody laughs. 

poems by Ian Smith

Song as Axiomatic Password   Driving in rain, radio on, Moby’s Mistake, the slow start redolent of regret then the beat insistent as grief swoops, leaves me depleted. I could have died a dozen deaths but lived. Wrenched apart by a song. A song?   Edge of night I heard the iron cries of trams […]

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