About the competition

In conjunction with the exhibition Love, Loss & Intimacy the NGV invites you to create your own piece of writing exploring notions of love, loss or intimacy, under 500 words. If you're over 18 years of age and a Victorian resident, post your entry on the blog (1 entry per person) for the chance to win a romantic weekend getaway for two at Sofitel Melbourne On Collins and lunch for two at Persimmon.

The judging panel is comprised of three judges: Professor Jennifer Strauss (Editor of the Oxford Anthology of Australian Love Poetry), Penny Modra (Editor of Three Thousand; The Age arts columnist) and Richard Watts (Presenter of SmartArts on TripleR).

Entries accepted until 11 July 2010 and the winner of the competition will be announced and their entry recited on 18 July following on from the 2pm Floor Talk.



Thursday, April 29, 2010

kneebasketry

in the distance a half-full moon
half-empty, to a pessimist
pours out the stream of its bourgeois sand

you and your hair have long spikes
a child's drawing of the sun

we have tamed our evenings now
and anything can be said
holding up our hearts like playing cards tethered to a picket in the puny universe of lawn

in the secret cave of my thoughts,
a place dripping with water
I rely on you as a towel lies on sand

you are my invitation to sleep
faster, and for longer,
and while doing other things
behind the streaming glass walls of the house there will be hell to pay, perhaps but then again it is lonely out there except for the birds and the animals, and green things

around our bed foothills mount
we are holding up our business cards
like two people playing twenty questions where nobody wants to win
cathoel jorss

No comments:

Post a Comment