Owen Bullock
Exegesis
She’s put up an umbrella, he can write in the shade.
He could walk the three miles home at two in the morning and no one minded.
                                             a girl through the supermarket reads Roald Dahl
He lives inside his woman’s beauty. It moves on him like giant blue marshmallows with the texture of cushions.
                                             when he gets to work the end of the rainbow
fashion and melodrama
tea and china
speak with an accent
ringlets hark
on Humboldt traffic
upraised hands
pencil conclusions
there’s peat in the bog
voices together
sever right
wrong is turned
for the barbecue
plangent chords
are Edwardian nights
anticipating but not
the elegance
of the stockinged leg
curses forestall
sensibility
there’s a receptacle
for spit
Owen Bullock has published a collection of poetry, sometimes the sky isn’t big enough, two books of haiku and a novella. He has edited a number of journals and anthologies, including Poetry NZ, and taught students of all ages. Owen is a PhD candidate at the University of Canberra.
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Exegesis
She’s put up an umbrella, he can write in the shade.
He could walk the three miles home at two in the morning and no one minded.
                                             a girl through the supermarket reads Roald Dahl
He lives inside his woman’s beauty. It moves on him like giant blue marshmallows with the texture of cushions.
                                             when he gets to work the end of the rainbow
fashion and melodrama
tea and china
speak with an accent
ringlets hark
on Humboldt traffic
upraised hands
pencil conclusions
there’s peat in the bog
voices together
sever right
wrong is turned
for the barbecue
plangent chords
are Edwardian nights
anticipating but not
the elegance
of the stockinged leg
curses forestall
sensibility
there’s a receptacle
for spit
Owen Bullock has published a collection of poetry, sometimes the sky isn’t big enough, two books of haiku and a novella. He has edited a number of journals and anthologies, including Poetry NZ, and taught students of all ages. Owen is a PhD candidate at the University of Canberra.