Martin Johnston remembered...

Winter Solstice of 2020 marked the 30th anniversary of the death of Australian poet Martin Johnston (12 Nov 1947 - 21 Jun 1990). He was the son of Charmian Clift and George Johnston. 'Beautiful Objects' - released October 2020 = anthology of his poetry...https://t.co/jqAo7RCJYF

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 5, 2020

Excerpt from 'The Blood Aquarium' 

Tonight the air is delicate 

like those tremulous aquatints 

in the better Victorian chronicles of travel. 

One would expect it to lisp. 

‘I think I would look better,’ it might say, 

‘in basic black.’ 

And in the night’s night 

we swing on the clapper of a black bell, tolling 

impossible polyphonies of burnished fish 

into the squi#ering plasma that surrounds us.

- More poetry HERE