Staging Iris

satellites and cabbage moths → → ↓

we’ve been throwing white at space

ever since wings first broke the speed of glass ↓

ceilings

dozy

↑ breaching ↓

towards

thrusts

striving

realise

triggers ↓

to thermal

↑ set

fuses

to stilted

up

leaves ↓

tricky

roll

↑ green arms gather solar rain

realise pools

green needs towards mother glow ↓

realise nests

green swords towards titled light

↑ realise quivers

set to magic carbon strains reel to surface crowded plots

bulb the writing stagers hauling blood and bone to flesh ↓

dark need not be drum or bass but meat below the scenes (squander wilted junk)

Adam Stokell’s poems have appeared in a number of journals, including Porridge, Unbroken, Dust, Cordite, Meniscus and Plumwood Mountain. His first poetry collection, Peopling The Dirt Patch, formed part of The People’s Library exhibit at The Long Gallery, Salamanca. He lives in Gagebrook, Tasmania.