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the king of fakey
Glides backwards, speed being
having lost the argument with centrifugal
we see the gnarly cuts, clean moves, sweet
stops, nudges back his taped together glasses,
Field Trip
Patrick, politely asks where I grew up,
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Carol Jenkins’ first book of poetry Fishing in the Devonian (Puncher & Wattmann, 2008) was short listed for the 2009 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. In 2007 she established River Road Press (www.riverroadpress.net) which produces audio CDs of Australian poetry. You can find her work and links to other publications at her blog Show Me The Treasure (www.showmethetreasure.blogspot.com). About ‘the king of fakey’, Jenkins writes: “A few years back, my then 14 year old son made me watch a DVD of one of his inline skating heroes, Chris Haffey, describing him as The King of Fakey. I loved the phrase, and also the total immersion the skaters had in the Kingdom of Skate. Fakey, as I found out, is the practice of skating backwards, but its ambiguity is a truly wonderful thing.” |
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