tributary

Joanne Burns

tributary

 
 
green midnight. just up your alley. a window performs. black sky follows. green tree green. birds gather. squabble. confer. brush the tree’s massive pages. green gut of history. gorge of, gorgeous green. realty brochures curl inside orphan gutters. memory sniffs at a pile of grey junk. like an elbow. blood green swoon of the andalusian. green horn of combat. lágrima arena. deep desert of green ~
 
 
 
 

Joanne Burns is a Sydney poet. She has had many books published since the early 1970s, many of which include prose poems/microfictions. Her latest book is brush (Giramondo Publishing, 2014). She has recently completed a new manuscript of poems, apparently. Examples of her work in the prose poem form can be seen, and heard, on The Poetry Foundation website.