Here poetry is free, and it is freed from the preconceptions and tastes of editors, publishers and booksellers. The advantage of publishing poetry on-line is that time, distance, money and gatekeeping no longer stand between writer and reader. Read on, and feel free to leave a comment.
Octavian messed with us
as August inherited July’s sun
and I appointed someone
to do my skiing for me
Then thunder struck
and it occurred to me
that being so little
of unknown pronoun
being lost to me eternally
returned to me unexpectedly
namelessly and so ethereally
compared to he who was imperially
Octavian
and was blond they say
20 November 2023
posted by Grant Duncan at 6:50 PM
Grant is a political theorist, media commentator, and nonfiction writer. He is the author of many academic publications on social policy and political thought and has previously specialised in: the institutional management of chronic pain; and the political uses of 'happiness'. See How to Rule? The Arts of Government from Antiquity to the Present (Routledge).
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