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From: Vol.11 N.01 – Queering Ecopoet(h)ics

carbon footprint contortions: reference notes

by Yvonne Patterson
#   Melbourne aquarium couple Klaus & Jones apply for female penguin
Surrogate / reproductive tribunal annuls K & J: ‘family of incorrect type’ / queers
natural world orders /

# (redacted) are incensed that K & J claim respect / even less enamoured
by outing of (redacted) own cheer squads’ perpetual indulgences / took resignations
revoked property leases / reduced carbon footprint / win win

# [minutes 2023/12 canon modernisation committee (eyes only) proposal: limit
congregation exodus / offer blessings to evolutionary science (selected bits) / mea culpa
‘old translation errors, so sorry’ / unknowable carbon cost of archive reprinting /
refer: climate mitigation committee ]

# [minutes 2023/12 climate mitigation committee (eyes only) proposal:
downsize text books = reduce carbon footprint / retrofit ‘Eden 6,000 years’ canon /
cut Darwin stuff, declutter timelines, closet pre 6,000 years into ‘era 0: ineffable’ /
refer: canon modernisation committee ]

# rotten apples review: TV series ‘Eden 6,000 years’ / key words: evolution, dogma
knowledge, ineffable, science, serpent / spoiler alert: Eve promotes knowledge
is evicted / viewer numbers in free fall /

# K & J start-up earthy delight.queer.stay.swop.org is booming / top tier players game
system without owning a home / lower ownership = lower carbon footprint / memo
CEO swop.org: claim carbon offset /

# K & J plan summer home-swop with gay bonobo couple / aquarium staff have kindly
agreed to place flotation jackets on hand /

Published: April 2024
Yvonne Patterson

is from New Zealand and lives in Perth, WA. Her poetry explores borders and fault lines around us as humans within socio-political contexts. Her career was in clinical psychology and human services policy. She has poems published in journals including the Australian Poetry Journal, Not Very Quiet, Writers Resist, Science Write Now and Anthologies including Grieve and Cuttlefish. Yvonne was in the WA Poets emerging writers program in 2021/22.

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