together indexing paddocks
as sites of action
in fallen winter sun
towards a manifesto
of clutter & commune,
the quarter-acre fluxus
event, the laboratory for
land flattening, mystical in the
dark air with elegant foreign
accents & egrets, attentive
agents arranging the scene
for new visitors stopping for a
sunset, assembled as totems on
dry and heavy landlocked hills,
persuaded the view is clean
Barnaby Smith
Barnaby Smith is a poet, critic, journalist and musician living on Darug and Gundungurra land in New South Wales, Australia. Recent work has appeared in journals such as Stand, Blackbox Manifold, 3AM, Erbacce, Orbis, Tentacular, Molly Bloom and Blaze Vox, as well as Cordite, Southerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Australian Poetry Anthology, Best Australian Poems, and more. He is an award-winning art and music critic, and records music under the name Brigadoon, having released the album, Itch Factor, in 2020: www.brigadoon.bandcamp.com
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