Corellas in the pink
of evening
like a broken carousel.
Over the playing fields
sprinklers
cross swords.
Stones long for
riverbeds.
All night, the big engines
of the house, turning
as in flight.
Aidan Coleman has published two collections of poetry and his work has appeared in Best Australian Poems, The Australian, Australian Book Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Glasgow Review of Books, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He is currently writing a biography of the poet John Forbes.
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