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.
keyhole
wearing today like it is your last. sip of sunlight. wearing today like an impatient scream. a stent that...
Three poems
How to have a child Begin on the day you decide you are fit to carry on. Begin with a quailing heart for here...
urgent biophilia
wrist-deep in dirt for something less particular satisfaction more tasty than butter lettuce wilting kale curling towards sun cabbage grubs chew chew chewing cabbage butterflies...
The Biyula novels
We pause in front of a fallen eucalypt blackened trunk glistening with charcoal grids decode species-information: the time of its seeding and the...
Qualifying ode to experience
‘The world is all that is the case.’ Wittgenstein but not a newsfeed, not really... A person isn’t a noun or an...
Stone. Tongue.
i. Evening falls, and rooms grow dark, then light. Through the open window, a cricket starts up its whirring. Steam rises from the...
Finding you above Kyoto
Finding you above Kyoto stone cats in red knits lined a narrow canal sweetened water swirled in bowls of fallen leaves staining my hands...
The gift
My younger sister’s just now sent me a maxim that our mother used, mostly in regard to others; then, each day as...
Quince season
our kitchen turns rosaries of light in ginger and lemon outside the fib of things fading down our evergreen seasons ...
Talon
(I thought it lost like a gate left open or a one-winged parenthesis, the hooked talon my father brought back from India in 1932,...
Weekend in the capital
I’m 65 per cent more likely to be myself here in the capital of same-sex coupledom it’s true I like to...
Conversations with the navigator
Walking alone, Roaring Forties buffeting our island, my haphazard heart cast away, I see Matthew’s sloop split the strait....
