In the night, the gorging begins / again, in the spring / night, in the branches / of the Moreton Bay figs, / that are fully-rigged
as windjammers, and make a flotilla / along the street.
The phantom image of ‘home’, of a strangely adjacent England disappears altogether. Another territory arises, a different territory is formed. The map of the Atlas opens up now. The real map obliterates the imaginary map, the phantom map, the severed leg still hurts…oh…oh…oh…
i dream that i have a panther i have a panther now black panther who is my little pet now who is my pet i like it like that how much is this doggy in the window tell me now i was lonely but now i’m not lonely i have a panther with me big and slinky smells catty smells musky to me and soft short fur shiny oily…