Ep 163. A map, a memory, a seal

K & I walk the Yarra River while tracking Nam Le’s post-lockdown poem Abbotsford I.

Show notes

Nam on Wikipedia
An interview with Nam for Wyoming PBS
Nam’s poems Elegies in Poetry Magazine and Collingwood published by The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman
Salvatore the seal

“Time, once more, for the big clean-out of winter fittings…”

“Where was I? Dights Falls, right, quick yet, and yet intact…”

“sun full on the red brick wall – sunnies on!”

“Give me the Birrarung’s boozy petrowhiff any day – that special gas smell of brown gleam.”

“(as the wall says) I love you my beans.”

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