glimpse
Ian Gibbins
histrionics
or at a pinch
gnash snarl sneer
under reported
as if a fly-by-night
seamstress or haberdasher
settling demand
for needle point
plaster fibre glass
double-brick
fireplace empty
whose transgression?
whale breach
unless wheeling terns
bow-wave muffle
semaphore
navigation light
and the field of view?
telephonist aside
switchboard cable
switchboard cable
otherwise salt damp
irretrievable block
tecton, distractor
in new circumpress
double glaziery
insulated by?
wind-locked peninsula
bethermed with scalp heat
(pyroencephaly)
what?
perlucid attendance / attendees
bamboo thicket anticillary
comacore
contrafix therapation
is this?
1930
pin-prick ashift
the hell hole
1997
four score ten
incendiary during calm
2006
only apparent linearity
Magellan / Columbus
2015
observe
observe
In 2015, the “New Horizons” space craft, launched in 2006, reached Pluto, carrying ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, who died in 1997, having discovered Pluto in 1930.
Ian Gibbins is a poet, electronic musician and video artist, having been a neuroscientist for more than 30 years and Professor of Anatomy for 20 of them. His poetry covers diverse styles and media, including electronic music, video, performance, art exhibitions, and public installations, and has been widely published in-print and on-line, including three books with accompanying electronic music: Urban Biology (2012); The Microscope Project: How Things Work (2014) and Floribunda (2015), the last two in collaboration with visual artists. Ian Gibbins is online at IanGibbins.com.au.
