A Panel of Winter 5/7
Matthew Hall (University of Western Australia, Australia)
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canopy moults to rusted metal
lamina’s obsidian sharpness
patterned to braille skin, an almond blue sky
mired in weather’s impertinent fall
forebearer’s of stark sunlight
tussocked in willow and migratory grasses
a tuft of fur on a broken branch. prints darting obsequial
run narrow to distant clearings
palpable gapes in the flurry of autumn wood
the resins of unwept scars
foundering the draught of waxen seals
messages arrive graying, sheds no comfort
the shadows hauled here on the threshold
scrapes a dark russetted blaze
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Matthew Hall has recently moved to Perth and is working on a thesis on J.H. Prynne and the ‘Cambridge School of Contemporary Poetics’. His poetry and prose have most recently has been featured in ditch, Misunderstandings Magazine, Science Creative Quarterly, Cordite Poetry Review and Foam:e. He is working on a book of poetics and a book of poetry based on the radical pastoral. The small, but irrevocable, Brutal Tender Human Animal: Reflections on the Photography of Roger Ballen is available from Trainwreck Press.
