Time Collapses
Yvonne Kiddle (University of Western Australia, Australia)
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the poet on the train
lost his hat once
to a crippled man
who ran
15 blocks
just to escape
ironic
capture
by a team of
security guards
all with authentic
poetic licence
to hit
on a
runaway hat
the lady sitting beside
him
laughed, and
said she saw a poet once
at the zoo
and it pleased her
to think
that they
could exist
happily
in
captivity
on a
train
riding up and
down
the Fremantle line
all day
hunting
for
hats
just like
in the wild
.
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Yvonne is an English HDR.Prelim/Honors student at UWA, doing a dissertation in Creative Writing. She is (slowly) working on a novel for an agency in the US. Next year she hopes to start my Ph.D, so all in all, she has much too much to do!