{"id":10420,"date":"2017-08-07T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-711166-2356953.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2017-08-03T22:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:00:56","slug":"approaching-winter-meditation-on-autumn-meditation-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/topics\/approaching-winter-meditation-on-autumn-meditation-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Approaching Winter &#038; Meditation on Autumn Meditation (7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Approaching Winter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rice-spilled traffic in the south-west suburbs<br \/>\nDeciphering another Cabramatta afternoon<br \/>\nYour tongue scraped clean of possible meanings<br \/>\nThe alleyway is stacked with palettes of bitter melon<\/p>\n<p>Deciphering another Cabramatta afternoon<br \/>\nYour mother\u2019s groceries, unpronounceable and strange<br \/>\nThe alleyway is stacked with palettes of bitter melon<br \/>\nEndless Cantonese inflections you hope to discern<\/p>\n<p>Your mother\u2019s groceries, unpronounceable and strange<br \/>\nNow a Honda Civic ghosts over the train line<br \/>\nTrailing Cantonese inflections you will never discern<br \/>\nIn the fish shop a mud crab slowly raises its claw<\/p>\n<p>As a Honda civic ghosts over the train line<br \/>\nYou dream of your grandfather\u2019s village dialect<br \/>\nIn the fish shop a mud crab slowly raises its claw<br \/>\nA single gesture you can somehow understand<\/p>\n<p>You dream in your grandfather\u2019s village dialect<br \/>\nYour tongue scraped clean of possible meanings<br \/>\nA single gesture you can somehow understand<br \/>\nRice-spilled traffic in the south-west suburbs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meditation on Autumn Meditation (7)<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>After Du Fu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lake\u2019s surface as smooth as a retina display in Shenzen.<br \/>\nThose push notifications flagging you down in every tracked location.<br \/>\nOn a street corner a girl pauses alongside the moon-earth<br \/>\nof WeChat\u2019s load screen. Beneath global winds tossing<br \/>\ntheir payments through black clouds she shivers like<br \/>\na unicorn\u2019s flanks after an earnings forecast. The sky<br \/>\npastes hidden scripts into its edges, coding a present no-one<br \/>\never imagined (28,000 rivers missing, incessant phishing).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approaching Winter \u00a0 Rice-spilled traffic in the south-west suburbs Deciphering another Cabramatta afternoon Your tongue scraped clean of possible meanings The alleyway is stacked with palettes of bitter melon Deciphering another Cabramatta afternoon Your mother\u2019s groceries, unpronounceable and strange The alleyway is stacked with palettes of bitter melon Endless Cantonese inflections you hope to discern Your mother\u2019s groceries, unpronounceable and strange Now a Honda Civic ghosts over the train line Trailing Cantonese inflections you will never discern In the fish shop a mud crab slowly raises its claw As a Honda civic ghosts over the train line You dream of your grandfather\u2019s village dialect In the fish shop a mud crab slowly raises its claw A single gesture you can somehow understand You dream in your grandfather\u2019s village dialect Your tongue scraped clean of possible meanings A single gesture you can somehow understand Rice-spilled traffic in the south-west suburbs &nbsp; 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