Luke Davies Poems

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11.
Totem (Ii)

In the dead of night in the dead of time
the private creatures nibbled, milky under moonlight.
Not a pine needle dropped. A salmon pulse throbbed muted
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12.
Selection From 40 Love Poems

Sugar Lee you are the sun today,
Pervasive light and heat, and I
The valley floor, the birch pine slopes,
The snow-capped peaks, transparent sk
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13.
Refraction

There is more blue up here. This is good. There is
more light careening in the air. The haloes are in form.
Light floods the cerebral cortex all day long; the
toughest wildest physicists acknowledge this, agree with
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14.
Gawain

Helluva day the day I fought
the lion to the death
when the women found me
prone across its flanks
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15.
From Theory To Pulse

Church of St Etienne du Mont, Paris
Because that force through green fuse drives all flowers
(which we would call the greater force, or God, or minor gods)
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16.
North Coast Bushfires

Reverence. How the afternoon
comes down on you like that.
In a microsleep you can travel
hundreds of metres — into trees
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17.
Summer

The sky broods like the whole of Sydney’s
done something wrong and it can’t quite put its finger
on it. Christmas stretches into New Year and
Sydneysiders wear the vacant stare of the slightly
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18.
Valascere

She stays asleep: tonight her soul huff–puffs;
for pain is forthcoming, she knows it and waves the white flag
(as if giving up the world’s finest imported sweet stuffs
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19.
Wave Function, Bondi

am floating or falling. I am light
as a feather, or even my thumbprint

fills the sky. The water near shore
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20.
Lisbon

Da Gama knew not fear. At ten we read these things
and still we became clerks.

Vasco da Gama. Yet there, back then, in the wailing
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