IF

then, who
plays Fairweather
in the movie?

Hugh or Chris? 

not Eric.

not Geoffrey.

drum lines
knot peripatetic
history 

waves inevitably weave Hugo
into the Timor Strait, somehow
as dry as raw lips unable to spell
thirst, let alone deliver on a raft
of promises, 

Nathan Shepherdson


Nathan Shepherdson’s latest poetry titles are soft meteorites (Upswell), axolotl waltz (Puncher & Wattmann), and parallel equators (Recent Work Press).