The Brokenness Sonnets sequence   poetry   "Blind already in one eye,"
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 The Brokenness Sonnets
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Notes

  • Note: 'From A Hospital Triptych'.
  • The sonnets in this publication are numbered from (i) to (xxi) and are untitled except for: (iv) Adam's Promethian Dream, (viii) The Missing Link, (ix) Borderline, (xi) Icarus, preflight, (xii) Icarus, after the fall, (xiii) Talisman, (xiv) A new age madness, (xvii) C-2, (xx) Chump and (xxi) Gauguin's soliloquy.

Includes

1
[Untitled] i "My head is atomic", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 37)
2
[Untitled] i "Autistic, Artistic: Ought Art some think,", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 38)
3
[Untitled] i "Though my eyes remember well my birthland", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 39)
4
[Untitled] i "Like a burglar's sum that hit and run:", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 40)
5
[Untitled] i "Bible me and put me on the stand:", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 41)
6
[Untitled] i "I run away because of somewhere to run to.", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 42)
7
Talisman i "'My mother is a witch. Gangs of bikies", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 43)
8
[Untitled] i "The moon rises like an opera diva full.", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 44) Contemporary Australian Poetry 2016;
9
[Untitled] i "Much has changed since you, Francis. Science", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 45)
10
[Untitled] i "For a long time now I have been dreaming", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 46)
11
C1 i "When you come do not bring me bouquets", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 47)
12
[Untitled] i "Self-pity is against the rules. My Swedish", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 48)
13
[Untitled] i "In gleaming machines gripped by calloused hands", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 49)
14
At the Third Stroke It Will Be i "At the first stroke, I mistake my wife for", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 50) The Saturday Age , 25 August 2012; (p. 33)
15
Adam's Promethean Dream i "Everyone prays for the flawed, the imperfect.", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 51)
16
Icarus, Pre-Flight i "I do not belong here in my father's house", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 52)
17
Icarus, After the Fall i "The Icari have flown since birth began.", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 53)
18
The Missing Link i "Standing at the edge of a revelation", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 54)
19
Chump i "I am your chimp, your chump, your chum, your one", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 55)
20
Gaugin's Soliloquy i "The earth as it was when God was young", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 56)
21
Doctordeath.com i "We found him on the internet. He was", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 57) The Road South : An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2007; (p. 65) Contemporary Australian Poetry 2016;
22
[Untitled] i "Yes, he will become Narcissus. It is", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 58)
23
Escape from the Rat-Gods i "Nietzsche erred from his alps. God is alive", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 59) Rabbit , Spring no. 6 2012; (p. 119)
24
[Untitled] i "Time to marshal the troops of memory,", Mal McKimmie , 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetileptic 2005; (p. 60)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon emPOWa : Poetry from Western Australia Issue 1 Scarborough : EMPOWA (Emerging Poets WA) Inc. , 2000 Z973215 2000 periodical issue Scarborough : EMPOWA (Emerging Poets WA) Inc. , 2000 pg. 99-109
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Poetileptic Mal McKimmie , Melbourne : Five Islands Press , 2005 Z1276877 2005 selected work poetry Melbourne : Five Islands Press , 2005 pg. 35-60
    Note: Epigraph: a poet's violent heart/ beats mainly in little stories - Vladimir Holan
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Related Works

From : The Brokenness Sonnets i "Yes, he will become Narcissus. It is", Mal McKimmie , 2002 extract poetry (The Brokenness Sonnets)
— Appears in: Blue Dog : Australian Poetry , vol. 1 no. 1 2002; (p. 26)
From : The Brokenness Sonnets Mal McKimmie , 2003 extract poetry (The Brokenness Sonnets)
— Appears in: Blue Dog : Australian Poetry , November vol. 2 no. 4 2003; (p. 14)
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