wicked heat
Philip Porter (University of Sydney, Australia)
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Patrick White saw
God in a glob
of phlegm shimmering
in the dust. I saw him
too in the soles
of her feet, the roof
of her mouth. He sweated
out her pores streaming
her taste across the flood
plains of her body
pooling in crevices,
in dimpled imperfections.
God was rife on baking
summer days down
behind the oval as sticky
paspalum, as short sharp
blades of grass freshly
mowed and far too nosey.
No clouds gave easy access
to the heavens. Rolling heat
leavened the air.
God had been invaded.
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Philip is about to complete his MA in creative writing at the University of Sydney. He has been published in Eucalypt (Australia), Blue Collar Review (USA) and the online Zen magazine, TheZenSite. Recently his poem, “Cathusian Silence” was put to music by composer Owen Salome and performed as part of Chronology Arts’ Lyrebird project. As a follow up to his stint as “poet in residence” under the aegis of Australian Poetry Philip organises a community poetry project in a Sydney cafe featuring established and up and coming poets.
