corrugate
identity

a fridge
a fringe

or thereabouts
protruded

the youthfulness of cliffs
seeking terraces or patios

pledge emancipation to
a block, a fence, a cricket pitch

pleasure sends us
what it means

a larger diagnosis
mushroom thickets disrupt an over

the application of grass stains

absorbs a ceremonious biography

cannot persuade us all to gather
civilization outdoors

howling knolls above yourselves
mowed in the lawn of the backyard

a fortuitous example of
a diagram

and then abstracted the refrigerator
the price of the landslide is forgetting

THE YOUTHFULNESS OF CLIFFS

Dave Drayton was an amateur banjo player, founding member of the Atterton Academy, lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney, and the author of British P(oe)Ms (Beir Bua Press), E, UIO, A: a feghoot (Container), A pet per ably-faced kid (Stale Objects dePress), P(oe)Ms (Rabbit), and other works.