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Nicole Tomlinson lives, writes and studies in Melbourne. She is a founding member of Textbase, a writers’ collective/journal dedicated to experimental writing. Other pieces have appeared in Meanjin, Aught, Tinfish and elsewhere.

Have no meaning

My passivity within being

These events are more At the

frontier When coming

To the incarnate The true

philosophy = apprehend

The chiasm

The visibility of my body

To touch

Dream. Are undeceived Were a good

substitute for bread A few pieces

Tell it from the white ice of the river

channel. Such are the sources

A single gentle rain

enough. There may be nothing

lofty Blasts of ages

after that misty weather

soon walked away This keeper

remarked The greatest virtuosity

Of course,

A similar notion

of transcendence Its three

dimensions of ontology

But a harmful pleasure

The order-word does not only

Refer It was far down

Ultimately inside and outside

cease to be discernible

a mock contract

a diastolic force passes

an older flower In the

mammalian heart

Strictly arboreal

Having stopped Acquires

a bilateral symmetry

and (b) The most noticeable point

about this cleavage

Cavity. Its roof

A feature of all the first

Enters the blood Transference

from host to host

Can’t Stop

Something inevitably happens to us when we are born Something about desire always

at a cost the drama and one of these other

obscurities as though we can’t stop speaking the language of regret Variability  Limitation a permanent renunciation

bedded with disgust

Look at the

structure and attachment the line the form and number

the muscles which flex

Because of the termination of parts When the muscles contract

Look at the

progressive development

in which you may feel mysterious long-range influences they are found

nearest to the lumen each rapidly smaller

pulse

particle  here one more term may be introduced Two contrasted characters The differences       between

organisms are called

variations  the between
so the Passes through

rhythm motif counterpoint

several becoming

forces of chaos Forget eighteen birdsongs

transcribed

the same