Douglas Scotney Poems

Third World workers working First
send money home from First.

Many South Australians
...

It's a fact:
you've seen enough
to deny God.
But your humanity
...

We wonder...

if the lucky few
who lasted long enough
...

You look at your burnt-out saucepan
and are impressed how
That became It.
...

In the war
you have a growing intuition
that your chance survival
on the front
...

As the guy most likely to buy yours,
a guy with one of his own,
buying yours,
would be giving you yours
...

Marie Antoinette
theorizing that the Strong Art
of the High Renaissance
allowed High Churchmen
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You update a translation
for a generation to read
closer to their brogue.
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