Mark Young

Mark Young

Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He is the author of more than sixty books, the most recent of which are with the slow-paced turtle replaced by a fast fish, published by Sandy Press in May, 2023, & a free downloadable chapbook of visuals & poems, Mercator Projected, published by Half Day Moon Press in August 2023. Mark recommends the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Provided they came 
in fancy wrapping, the 
German intellectual 
of the interwar years
could perceive utility 

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signs of the Black Death can still be
seen. Now a bittersweet place, that
neither technology nor the rapid con-
​sumption of shooters can transform.

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Start at the top of the list
& work your way down.
Social opportunities are
​increasingly circumscribed.

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                             The gnomes are bored
                  with being enigmatic. Have
                                   dumped the seasonally
                       changing menu &
                            its old world sensibilities—

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Oblivious of her nakedness
she went racing through the
airport, shouting out that
they were adding weapons on

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indeed, as if there
were some other
direction to arrive
from, light rain or not.

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One of the film's main musical
themes was illegal, the group of
upper-level undergraduates in
geography, sociology, & Chinese

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No such thing as information
hardware when you go skinny-
dipping. All soft, no mix &
match, show some flesh or show

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Because of either infinity or
invisibility — the translation
is unclear — there's been a lot
of jelly crystals downloaded
recently around the world,

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To speak in parable, the
most vintage smoking
paraphrenalia is super light
& packable because it lets
you leave the poles behind.

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"It is not my fault if you cannot understand what it is I am going to be talking about, if you lack the duende necessary to understand my poems on the run."

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Someone has gifted me an
astrolabe.  I use it to determine
the distance between the end
of one line & the next.  Its

ethnicity changes daily...

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(Cy Twombly triptych, an
innocent & pre-
plastique Michael
Jackson concert, a
touched de Chirico).

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Belief entered into as if
it were the back seat
of a taxi. “Just drive”
she said, & used her glasses
to push the hair back

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