Reflections Poem
History and humanities
Volume 204 - Issue 7

radiology

Authors:  Rob Walker and Maggie Ball

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 281. || doi: 10.5694/mja15.01086
Published online: 18 April 2016
holding our future in nervous hands
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holding our future in nervous hands
we come with x-rays – ikons
in large envelopes with corporate logos

queue for the Delphic Oracle
who divines the auspices
like chook entrails

this arcane analysis
reading the stars within …

under cold cathode lights, imaging replacing
ugly imagining our thoughts digitise into black
and white vaporising to harsh words

I would put those speech
bubbles under their own scan
break down the components of their dipthongs

meaning as signs reciprocally determined:
sick/well — a dichotomy sanctioned by the ticking clock,
nervous hands melting like Dali’s

this arcane analysis,
internal astrology.

Authors

  • Rob Walker DipT(Adv)1
  • Maggie Ball BA, MBus2
  • 1. Cherry Gardens, SA
  • 2. Martinsville, NSW

Correspondence: robwalkerpoet@gmail.com

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