Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
Pyjama Man
Though he lives in a rundown unit above a busy intersection, the pyjama man imagines that the sounds of the traffic are the...
Kale
In her arms she cradles the kale, knowing these are precious days. She stares down lovingly at the kale, who...
Palio De Siena
In the Tuscan city of Siena for seven hundred years this annual race has run to settle rivalries between citizens of its seventeen...
Baba
A friend suggests a psychologist, but my grandmother was a house witch, her mother the thirteenth child of the thirteenth...
upstart crowe
I was reading Shakespeare on my phone & then this rose started blooming in front of me as...
Moonshot
in the tenth set he sent the tennis ball on an interstellar galaxy quest, a sudden outburst which seemingly served no...
The trouble with eternity
I had a dream about the afterlife: I died quite unexpectedly Although it is, of course, to be expected, And I materialised...
Moon man
After Elizabeth Venn He circles the room five times, refusing to believe he’s resistible. I tell myself I won’t tilt for his...
Aca-lyte
Che Guevara is white and wearing a shirt with his face on it, mansplaining Derrida or Adorno a hat like your...
how to launch a poem
i) recall democracy is pretty numbers & orange clusters, strategically bold and critically wet, intemperate type-c photographs; ii) advance stagger:...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology
I disappoint myself each day that I remember my work password I take it that seriously that I base my key on the...
Habitat
It was early. I recognised my fate in the bathroom mirror. Behind which he slept deep into the morning...
