25 for 25 Curtin Writers Respond

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Strange Juxapositions

Surface Reading of Ten Thousand Waves After Isaac Julien Caitlin Maling

To write the poem, I must take off my glasses To watch the film, keep them on My favourite part is the gap between screens imagining their placements whether deliberately within or without my arms-span whether the walls of the gallery are flexible enough to move: how many of these are structural beams and loadbearing walls? In the film a woman in red shoes smokes a cigarette, a tram journeys back and forth, she can walk in pin-thin heels on cobblestones without turning an ankle and I am sitting on the floor because I am 31


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