The Ofi Press Magazine

Poems by Mark Young (Australia)

Published in The Ofi Press issue 45

A line from Steven Spielberg

A battle with a wild

Pokémon interrupts

our ability to watch

a sound being made

at some distance away.

It’s a twist on a proverb,

or possibly the atmo-

spheric concentrations of

greenhouse gases reflected—

in a kind of albedo—back

off parents watching their

offspring fall from trees.

for Pablo Casals

This interfacing

space a cello.

Turns taken in

different tempi.

Breathless little

pizzicato steps.

Or. The breathy

resonance of

a long bow

drawn across it.

A littoral reading

I put on a

bowler hat

take an apple

for lunch

& head

for la plage

at Yeppoon

where I en-

gage in a bit

of plagiarism

by purloining

some images

from Magritte

& putting

them forward

as my own.