Luoyang Chen

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A mere glimpse at its bitterest. We sit with our legs crossed. I grip your feet in white socks, then rub them, feeling the tiles between my dialectics. Relax, heartbeats, and sitting still. You smile at me and sniff my hair. I wait until you buckle in to light a cigarette. I feel embarrassed to introduce myself as a poet. It is all memory now in the loop of void, oblivion, and otherworld. The literary will eventually turn your stomach. But because I cannot continue this living I have no other option.

Poetry, like the archive, is past but never truly passes. While reading Wiradjuri poet Jeanine Leane’s gawimarra: gathering, stories and memories become part of an interconnected land-space, where past and future mingle with the present. They are a ‘timeless’ or ‘all-time’ presences, and I feel their embodiment through Leane’s poetic yarns.