Co–nclusion: following find in 1982 by local sponge diver Mehmed Çakir & 11
campaigns {over 22 000 descends} the Uluburun drowned in the Mediterranean
Sea at the end of the 14th century BC {see golden scarab inscribed ‘Nefertiti’} &
amongst other treasures of this Late Bronze Age trove a single ingot of pure
blue glass proving such perfectness lasts
from Persia & Pompeii to Tang & Ming to the Congo & Zambia belt you
are my plenary blue at rest upon fingers tables of kings you make love
with eyes make cats made of stone stare back this is when I love you best
one stable isotope 11 meta states a church where the Virgin locks out shock
& we’re safe but sometimes the door divorces its hinge & Kobold the Goblin
gets a foot in o wobbly-wobbly-precarious-psyche stories packed with dirty
bomb endings everything starts to turn black sometimes you weep way
down within & your tears fall silent like gamma ray ash your grief can wipe
out the world sometimes you wail like a doomsday device emit a steady sad-
sad pulse but you always mend & you always return & you always remind
no matter how hurt that “Mutual Assured Destruction” spells the word/world
mad
Jordie Albiston has published nine poetry collections and a handbook on poetic form.
Albiston possesses an ongoing pre-occupation with mathematical constructs and constraints, and the possibilities offered in terms of poetic structure. Her work has won many awards, including the Mary Gilmore Award and the 2010 NSW Premier’s Prize. She lives in Melbourne.