{"id":3761,"date":"2018-10-23T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2018-10-23T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:41:00","slug":"on-swanston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3761","title":{"rendered":"on swanston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\" class=\"hfeed\">\n<header id=\"branding\" role=\"banner\">\n<hgroup><\/hgroup>\n<nav id=\"access\" role=\"navigation\">\u00a0<\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<div id=\"content\" role=\"main\">\n<article id=\"post-3755\" class=\"post-3755 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>My thanks to Briareus for a unique musical mix of my poem\u00a0<em>up here on swanston<\/em>. Sadly, Collected Works, the Melbourne poetry shop referred to \u2013 which I visit every time I go to that city \u2013 is closing down in November. Listen\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/files\/Briareus\/58521\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CollectedWorks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CollectedWorks-300x200.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CollectedWorks-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CollectedWorks-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CollectedWorks.jpg 720w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"b\">up here on swanston 2<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>above kfc maccas and hungry jacks<br \/>\npersists an older melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>above the cathedral arcade outside<br \/>\ncollected works it\u2019s still the 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>everyone\u2019s slower. a shop<br \/>\nthat only sells buttons.<\/p>\n<p>winter sun draws oblique golden lines<br \/>\nthrough leadlight arches.<\/p>\n<p>down the road at fedsquare a toddler<br \/>\nignores thousands around him,<\/p>\n<p>lost in tunnel vision joy. chasing<br \/>\nhis shadow pixellating<br \/>\non cobbles.<\/p>\n<p>sees past thousands rushing about their<br \/>\npetty business, hubs of their own multiverses<\/p>\n<p>while i worry about the rise of trump &amp; hanson,<br \/>\nthe fall of community,<\/p>\n<p>the toddler revels<br \/>\nin his own moment.<\/p>\n<p>(First published in the inaugural print edition of\u00a0<strong>malevolent soap<\/strong>\u00a0Vol. 1 (ed. Felix Garner Davis)<\/p>\n<p>ISBN 978-0-646-97882-6<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\"><input id=\"adminbar-search\" class=\"adminbar-input\" maxlength=\"150\" name=\"s\" type=\"text\" value=\"\" \/><\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 My thanks to Briareus for a unique musical mix of my poem\u00a0up here on swanston. Sadly, Collected Works, the Melbourne poetry shop referred to \u2013 which I visit every time I go to that city \u2013 is closing down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3761\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3767,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}