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    Spirit Level
    Spirit Level
    Spirit Level
    Ebook56 pages21 minutes

    Spirit Level

    By Mark Willing

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    Mark Willing lives in Melbourne, where he works as a teacher. His poetry has been published in magazines and journals including Verandah, Small Packages, Five Bells, Centoria and Blue Dog. This is his first collection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateFeb 8, 2016
    ISBN9781760410889
    Spirit Level
    Author

    Mark Willing

    Mark Willing lives in Melbourne and has had his work published in various magazines and journals. He has written a previous book, published by Ginninderra Press, entitled Spirit Level.

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      Spirit Level - Mark Willing

      Spirit Level

      Spirit Level

      Mark Willing

      Ginninderra Press

      Contents

      Copyright

      Spirit Level

      Spirit Level

      ISBN 978 1 76041 088 9

      Copyright © text Mark Willing 2011

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2011

      Reprinted 2016

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide SA 5015

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      Spirit Level

      Steve

      Sitting at the kitchen table

      all night until sunrise

      with a candle

      and half a bottle of Scotch

      writing the candlelight poems

      not aware that you were watching

      even understanding

      why I do this

      flashes of lightning

      and rolls of thunder

      through the open window

      laughing my head off

      at the ecstasy

      of personal freedom

      at the unshaven ballsy reflection

      I could see in the tank’s glass

      raising my glass

      my pen and a bicep

      unaware of the eye

      peering out at me

      driving me home.

      Debt Collection

      Eight years old

      our car reversing

      out of the driveway

      on our way

      to collect debts

      because that’s our business

      we remind people

      they are fragile

      that’s our business.

      As the car

      is about to turn

      into the street

      a black shape swoops

      from the tree

      next to our driveway

      an owl – says my father

      and it rises up

      into another tree

      this time in our own yard.

      The car idles

      as we wait

      for another sighting

      but it just stays there

      just outside the range

      of our headlights.

      Something must be lurking

      in the garden below –

      something with something

      to repay.

      The car rolls forward.

      Come on – my father says –

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