Douglas Scotney Poems

'The gallery walls were painted
three weeks before the opening
of the video installation, '
she said,
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'Painted wind'
could well be
wind with a smell.
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The filth from a supermarket trolley handle
transferred to a shopper's hands
and then to a handled tomato
and, worse, to a handled mushroom,
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As iconic on Australian TV
as is now
Tom Gleeson's 'Incorrect'
on 'Hard Quiz',
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The first laugh
in my first German class
came via ‘Vater';
the second from ‘Er fahrt'.
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Out of intrigue, not
of nothing else to do,
I dipped into
a satire by John Wilmot.
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'You probably don't know,
but a reindeer-skin boot
with the hair still on it
goes by the name of finsko.
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The more upset she is in her role,
the more we forgive a player's rhyming couplets
and the more is our expectance
of a rhyming tercet.
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Before Spenser,
'feared' was also 'adreaded'.

For rhetoric and rhyme
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