Wanderlust
Joshua Finzi (University of Canberra, Australia)
Your legs
break in the
ocean
so you become
seafoam and
whale-song
sometimes the magic
uncoils and unbalances
against the grain
of the sky
but you return again
to salt and sand
in the eyes of
a fish
you dream of
the lowest plate of bone
and rock and
whale-song
sometimes the magic
disperses in howls
against the spaces
between your control
but you breathe deep
in a cat-cow
the salt and the brine
mesmerise even constellations
so you break sea-drift
swimming like barramundi
through the ocean in
between the waves
Joshua Finzi is currently studying his doctorate at the University of Canberra. He has previously been published in Voiceworks and Cordite. Lives presently under late stage capitalism and is getting very fed up with it.
