Sophie Finlay & Matthew Hall


Meret

I.
fahne and billow




                               braced as a                         ruined track
                                   your bone necklace                               forks

trench in a gloved hand
                                                                            seedstem

                               meat in gems
ladders
                                                                            truss liminal

                                              desire                   inset       touch hazes
broached un leather

                                                             gasp







II.
For m




                                                                                                                                        wolken

                               cleft

                                                                                           fur

                                                                                                                                                                      das paar

                                              eulen







III.
aubade




                               bough

                                              whisker                                              and neck

cloven                   you darken with ripples

                throated nest
                                                                                           knelling
                                                                            disturb and field –

submerge paper                  ebb







IV.
traum




heap in silk
                               sullen hills
                                                                            distant torso
                                                                            the I burrows

                slide your hand
                                                             red      with sea

                                                                                                                         against the tide
                                                             you fall for
                                                                                                                                        loss

                                                                                                                         time again




Sophie Finlay is a visual artist and poet from Melbourne, Australia. She has been a finalist in the John Leslie Art Prize, the Mt. Buller Art Prize, and winner of She Who Inspires, Walker Street Gallery. Her poetry is published in Meanjin, Verity La, Cordite Poetry Review, and Shaping the Fractured Self (UWAP).

Matthew Hall holds a doctorate from the University of Western Australia. He has published extensively on the work of J.H. Prynne and British late-modern poetry and poetics, including the 2015 monograph Violence in the work of J.H. Prynne. Hall is the author of numerous books of poetry and is the Scholarly Editor of Cordite Poetry Review. He presently lives and teaches in Melbourne, Australia.
 
 
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