‘Making the Air Visible’
Mark O’Flynn
(First published in Rochford Street Review, July 2025)
- Rosalie Gascoyne
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, she said
the instinct of evaporating water
a feather’s murmuring
the heat of food in the bowel
wood constrained by paint
hills freed by order
bones by varnish when the flesh has gone
dusk infected by recalcitrant dawn
paradox creeping into the lungs
like pollen into the oxygen tent
ruined crops marching over
the paddock towards us
the pattern
of a river’s ripples,
before the landscape of the sky
puts us in our place.
Mark O’Flynn is an Australian writer who has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Undercoat, and Einstein’s Brain. His novels include The Last Days of Ava Langdon, (UQP, 2016), Grassdogs (Harper Collins, 2006) and The Forgotten World (HC, 2013). He lives in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.
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