Author: Zenobia Frost

Poetry on the CityCats

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From the Ferry, Looking Out

What bonds must hold these atoms’ hands
that I stand so collected,
like stamps or butterflies?
I can see my yesterdays
scattered across this river, and I wonder whether
you could piece me together in different ways
by asking the inconstant water
how she would build me.

Twilight shatters into street lights;
deep blue turns fog
into romance. I am looking
to complete my collection,
and I keep coming back
to Brisbane.

Zenobia Frost

QPF’s Poem of the Week (Poetry in the Suburbs) project takes poetry to the general public, with a new poem on CityCat ferry screens every week. Mine was up in July 2007.

Evolution

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When I woke, you were sleeping,
turned at an angle that made you headless,
tucked into your tortoiseshell.
Your hands clutched your sides
as though, if you let go,
you might just lose yourself.
I wanted to uncurl you from the womb,
and take your hand like a babe’s.
I’ve got it in my head that I could show you
how we can walk upright,
without falling off the edge of the earth.

Zenobia Frost
Published in Bizoo (2006)

 

Word-pikelets

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Do you crave Zen word-pikelets?

Probably not, but nevermind that.

Experience the madness of spoken word at the Queensland Poetry Festival in August, or monthly at SpeedPoets.

Colour by Numbers is a musical poetry (or poetic musical) project that musician Timothy Tate and I began toying with a year or so ago. We’re slowly evolving into a nostalgic jazz-poetry extravaganza. Watch this space. We have a new website in the works, but check out our oldish Myspace here. As you can see, we’ve had a big name change, dropping that pesky ‘ing’.

Rocco and Spanki (aka Ross Clark and I) will be performing at the Trash Video fundraiser on the 4th of July at Ahimsa House, 26 Horan Street, West End. More details to come. We will also appear at the Queensland Poetry Festival’s Poetry in the Pub event on August 14th, 2008.

Oh, and keep an eye out for me in the May 08 issue of LOTL magazine.