Anthem; elegy
Patrick Jones

 

 

 

 

yr  breaTh is shallow  

 

           sHallow spirit –

 

                                 whatEver and hopeful                        

 

 

yr  breath is cLosed                       

 

                                                               clOsed body

 

      Stimulants

     and anxieTy flipping              

 

 

         yr  Breath is dying   

 

assisted prOlonged                 

 

(yr  biRth traumatic

 

                iNduced  cut open)

 

 

                           unpRepared for life                   

 

unprepAred for  death

 

       yr  Breath is out

 

out of spIrit                   

 

unperformeD                          

 

 

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Jones’ work as a writer of poetry and non-fiction, a visual artist and as an ecological thinker has appeared or been discussed in various publications including Meanjin, Cordite, Arena, Jacket, D!SSENT, PAN (Philosophy, Activism, Nature), Southerly, Heat, Rabbit, unMagazine, Blue Dog, Going Down Swinging, The Atlantic Monthly (US), ecopoetics (US), Tarpaulin Sky (US), Spiral Orb (US), Angelaki (UK), The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He recently completed doctoral work at the University of Western Sydney within the Writing and Society Research Group, where he developed the practices of 'permapoesis' and walked-for food. In October 2015 he and his partner Meg Ulman released The Art of Free Travel (NewSouth Publishing, UNSW Press). permapoesis // the artist as family