Jake Goetz
Mountain sonnet
Cronulla afternoon 2005
     after Geoff Page’s ‘Bondi Afternoon 1914’
white Australia is immortalised
in the yellow sand
from the esplanade drunk cries
for their water, their land
their line of horizon cut
by a freighter that connects
a light blue to dark:
two shades, one colour
*
this poem is a freighter
but the image today:
Union Jack and Southern Cross
keeping the horizon divided
in a mirage of difference
Jake Goetz is a writer from Sydney. His poetry has appeared in the Sun Herald, Rabbit, Voiceworks and Otoliths. He currently studies writing at the University of Wollongong.
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Mountain sonnet
the Alps in the sky
& i on a train
bringing the Alps to this page
this day once in a lifetime
like most days the mountains
cut by time stand in the sky
snow & stone like ice in my mouth
& i sitting in the DeutschBahn
flying on the ground
from Munich to Graz
thinking of nothing more
than bringing the Alps
to this page
…
Cronulla afternoon 2005
     after Geoff Page’s ‘Bondi Afternoon 1914’
white Australia is immortalised
in the yellow sand
from the esplanade drunk cries
for their water, their land
their line of horizon cut
by a freighter that connects
a light blue to dark:
two shades, one colour
*
this poem is a freighter
but the image today:
Union Jack and Southern Cross
keeping the horizon divided
in a mirage of difference
Jake Goetz is a writer from Sydney. His poetry has appeared in the Sun Herald, Rabbit, Voiceworks and Otoliths. He currently studies writing at the University of Wollongong.