Steve Brock
'You Only Queue Twice' by Steve Brock | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
standing on the Puente Romano
in Cordoba
watching the rio Guadalquivir
run beneath
like time itself
I do the math
2,000 divided by 44=45
history is nothing more than this
45 times a life of error and uncertainty
the main lesson of monuments in Europe
for which you only queue twice
unless you want the audio guide too
but mostly we take ...
I wake up
in the middle of the night
in a panic
about my dead-end job
the credit card
the housing market
until poetry appears
like a window
I go through
& compose
a couple of works
of genius
by day light
they won’t be much
of course
but it’s enough
to get me
through the night.
'Post Apocalypse' by Steve Brock | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
Wednesday 28 November 2016, Adelaide
the day of the storm
I had a poetry reading
with Nathan Curnow
overland from Ballarat
to launch his collection
The Apocalypse Awards
an hour into the unprecedented
statewide blackout
I took his call
you bastard
you brought the apocalypse with you
a flock of starlings
rises like applause
from the roof
of her Majesty’s Theatre
'dreaming with Ted Berrigan' by Steve Brock | States of Poetry SA - Series Two
I met Ted Berrigan
in a dream
wearing a T-shirt
standing in a sparsely
furnished room
the early Berrigan
not yet bed ridden
but distinctly
pot bellied
& the beard
of course
it was a vivid dream
I can’t remember
if he said anything
literary
but he seemed pleased
to be there.
Steve Brock published his first collection of poetry The Night is a Dying Dog (Wakefield Press) in 2007, and received a grant from Arts South Australia for the completion of ...
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