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AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS & WRITERS FOR PEACE
bodies without organs by Helen Hagemann

[Above] Photo of Helen Hagemann by friend Elizabeth, 1998.

Helen Hagemann


bodies without organs

evening is a book stack
of Deleuze and Guattari
and despite the lack of sleep
the embargo on love
she streams a consciousness of peace
like cats swinging for moths
doves on surveillance
art-movie set of Buster Keaton
the scent of a bed’s brass cooing
morning tea curled foetal
in deckchairs with yawns
a night cast of wine, poetry, cheese and passion
without fooling yourself
on this
delicate edge
where peace is a rhizome looking for its tree
an assemblage of could-do’s
seeking its own detection—
where are these jingo-warriors and cranks
are they bodies without organs
do they forget how to love?

About the Poet Helen Hagemann

Helen Hagemann lives in Perth, Australia. Her books include The Shadow Goddess and soon to be released Until the Last Symphony Rises (Indian Ocean Books). Her work appears in magazines, literary athologies, Recursive Angel, PixelPapers, Snakeskin, OzPoet, Poetry Downunder e-zines, and the Southern Review. She was runner-up in a 1998 Perth PEN International Competition with a poem called ‘Permanent Aberrations’ about Australia’s notorious Christopher Skaze. She is included in the 2000 publication, ‘An Endless Afternoon’(Lioness Publications) – an anthology celebrating birth and mothering by Women in Publishing. She is passionate about the ‘other’ in her work and primarily focuses on the female experience. Helen graduated from ECU with a BA in Writing and works as a Coordinator on ECU’s Joondalup campus for the Peter Cowan Writers Centre. As a community arts administrator, she coordinated a Fringe Festival in November 2000 as part of the WA State Literature Centre’s, ‘Word of Mouth,’ Writers and Readers Day bringing such novelists as Nick Earls to the northern suburbs.
   [Above] Photo of Helen Hagemann by friend Elizabeth, 1998.

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