It just so happened that yesterday, as I toiled away at my new ‘work in progress’, I found myself writing a good couple of paragraphs on nasal hair. Later on, I dipped into The Best Australian Poems 2006 and began reading Les Murray’s ‘The Nostril Songs’, quite by chance
Oh happy day! A wonderful example of olfactive poetic synchronicity, I exclaimed to no one in particular
A playful poem with startling images and smells
The kingdom of ghosts
has two nostril doors
like the McDonald’s symbol.
- Les Murray
2 responses so far ↓
1 warthog // Aug 31, 2007 at 11:13 pm
bogey wonderland?
2 squib // Sep 3, 2007 at 3:01 am
oh dear!
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