nuanced like afterthoughts
the delicate arrangement of the foreshore
in variegated shades
of complacency, other vagaries—

curved glass & ticker tape
a panorama of statistics & difficult weather
forecast as far south as
van dieman's land

north to the arafura—
a dark psychology
passed over in the official itineraries, except
for model cases

of rehabilitation—an imaginary longitude
drawn between
the manifestly real & the unseen,
graphing probablity

"high" or "low" fronts
focused on the screen
in gestural simulation—tracing the onset of
instability

levelling out to an average far from the
epicentre,
miscegenated on the fringe—
property rites

or stage directions for perpetual motion
describing
the evolution of this concept
in terms of political climatology,

inflation & the coming millennium—
re.marx:
"the last phase of the universal historic form
is its comedy" . . .

but in the absence of
perspective, how flat everything appears
from the pre-
historic spars of manly ferries