JUN 09

Famous Reporter # 39

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TOBY DAVIDSON

                    Doll's Heads

We have  abolished the reviewers

and write more to no one, speak me, me, me

to an x-rayed soul, be they, they, they

to a walled-in sky, pass meekly opaque

in cloud-coloured corridors to high resolution

electric lagoons.

 

The next ark will be the ark of things:

gutters of the world collect fallen telescopes,

marbles clink in the scum of their orphanhood

doll's heads line lanes still searching for Orpheus.

 

Songs were once songs

for games gods can skip to.

 

Once, once, once,

the gods tripped and clapped.

 

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Toby Davidson was born in Perth in 1977 and grew up in the beachside suburb of Cottesloe. In 2002 he moved to Sydney where he co-founded the Citizens of Language readings and began to perform at festivals and with bands. He currently lives in Warrnambool where he is a   lecturer and researcher in Australian literature at Deakin University.