Jennifer Mackenzie
1.
If the earth was
cooling
rather than
warming
would we become more
alarmed
as ice forms on every
idea we throw up
in your direction
on every palm oil plantation
fronds dissolving into
permafrost
on every beach umbrella
spinning colour-wheel
suntan ice where are
your furry mittens?
11. PixCell Red Deer (Kohei Nawa)*
when waking
in the cage of ice
insane igloo
do I at last glimpse you,
moose?
*National Gallery of Victoria
Jennifer Mackenzie is the author of Borobudur (Transit Lounge, 2009) which was republished in Indonesia as Borobudur and Other Poems (Lontar, 2012). Borobudur was highly commended in the Australian Arts in Asia Awards, and has been presented at festivals and conferences at venues in the Asian region and in Australia. One of Jennifer’s current projects is called New Energy, a series of poems about China’s western deserts.
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