| | Poems | Ashley Capes Olives
Wheels roll by like big olives
and rotten lettuce
is stuffed in drains, patches of frost
move across bins slowly
like the ballerina
on swan lake, and all the sky can do
is blink back tears
the fog lifts itself in wisps
as if from soup, and
windows wobble
like plates on a clown’s pole,
every wrapper
caught in the wind
makes do with a supporting role.
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| | Ashley Capes co-founded Egg (Poetry) in 2002, which sadly ceased publication in 2006. He is
currently teaching Media and English in Australia,
while co-editing
Holland 1945
and Kipple Poetry. His first collection of poetry Pollen
and the Storm was published with the assistance
of Small Change Press in 2008 and his second; Stepping Over Seasons will be published by
Interactive Press 2009/10. | | | |
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