Graham Lindsay

all around
the subject, not
because you didn't know it

was a subject
but because it is

the subject. We are

subjects of The Subject
in the kingdom of greatness, the realm

whence we come — No hea koe? —
where we live

an imaginary
place between illusion
and feeling between

language and nothing
where the world's shape
is its sound.

Setting for a novel, perhaps
the poem.
Go right to the heart, never

miss a beat

From The Subject (Auckland: AUP, 1994)
© Graham Lindsay

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