revelation
- revelation
a time of great ugliness fell in flakesmalformed & nothing like snow we were thegreat unblessed there was nothing anywhereanymore we did not own or know howdoomful the day when mystery stops &
the dream is all dreamt & the locks are alllocked & the ten thousand times ten thousandsof angels with singing & harps & theirsong has also just stopped o where the fourhorsemen the trumpet & thunder o where
the key to the bottomless pit & whythese four winds all blowing the earth & blowingthe earth all to bits yea it costs toomuch this carefully how I yearn for thetime when the day opened wide & for free [End Page 55]
Jordie Albiston's latest titles are The Weekly Poem: 52 exercises in closed & open forms (Puncher and Wattmann, 2014), Jack & Mollie (& Her) (U of Queensland P, 2016), and Euclid's Dog: 100 algorithmic poems (GloriaSMH, 2017), which was short-listed for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. She lives in Melbourne.
