Title: Outback

Author: James Brown

In: Sport 28: Autumn 2002

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, March 2002, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Outback

You are not like me. I dangle, I triple hit.
I wait on the open road until the lights go out.

I like it when my rods and cones drain colour
from the landscape. Invisibility shows how

you don't need to see everything. I don't need the light
to shine right through. Looks are overbidden

(in my humble opinion). Rain loosens the windscreen,
the tongue. I turn blind eyes. I want them

to know the world is not composed,
that its pretty face will not be recognised.