Here's one of the poems Audrey Mardavich submitted in her application. We love it very much:
MALIBU BEACH, DORCHESTER
I only love things no one else cares about
At night Savin Hill is a small mound of lights
The bridge operator drinks a lot of water and watches TV with the shades shut
Does he get excited when a boat comes
or is he all pissed off that he has to stand up?
Cormorants dance on other people’s kayaks
We like to keep each other updated on the geese growing up
Julia knew the names of all of the beach grasses
and it was at that moment I realized I’m unable to memorize facts,
like the names of most things
maybe I don’t try hard enough
maybe I’m capable of forgetting almost anything
Once I saw a group of teenagers smoking grass in the grass and I was jealous,
not because I cared about getting high, which I did
but because I hadn’t thought of it,
going in there, I mean
the grass cave, so green and so tall.
If you dive deep into the water headfirst you can feel the cold envelop your head,
otherwise it’s fine to float on the warm surface of the water
stay in the shallow end
pee a little.
A poet is selected to write a poem a week, for every week in 2013, in return for AUD$10 per poem and the publication of a chapbook of all 52 poems.
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