Douglas Scotney Poems

One French term for 'the brain'
is translated as 'the sack'.
What you hold in your brain
is what you know,
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From SA Water's website,
it seems Kangaroo Creek Dam's wall has been raised
to lessen chance of earthquake damage,
and the spillway has been widened to cut flood risk.
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Qualcosas,
his name already specialized
to Terrificas
by many of his followers,
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For the purity
of the lite of the willy,
I mean, of the white of the lily,
'lily-white'
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'nesia' means 'islands',
so if peninsula Malaya,
a bit of Borneo
and minuscule islands
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The Middle Way
The doctor who says thisis,
not fthisis or tisis
for phthisis, the wasting disease,
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Clearly
he can
but a ball-kicking sportsman
shouldn't
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'Notre Dame's burning
caused by workers restoring'
defaulting as the excuse.
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In search of the word
for the quote of another author
that an author prefixes to the text of a novel,
the poet rejects the temptation
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