No Longer Believe

What do I SE E? //

Why do I have V IS IO N /

if I no longer believe /

what my MI ND /

puts before me? //

What is MI N E /

now unfolds /

       o u t /

        as OU RS //

VIS ION requires

requires an /

 INCIS/ION //

AC RO SS /

AL L DI VI SI ONS//

into W/HAT was/

NE/VER there //

       SE/EING /

         what was AL/WAYS /

EV  ERY W H E RE //

beyond what eyes /

               CON CE IVE //

requires YOU to /

             leave behind WH AT /

YO U know /

To be TR U E //

             That there /

             is a /

YOU //

 

 

 

People Disappearing into Walls

I live with
people who
disappear
into walls
Always
never saying
a word
rarely leaving
evidence of
their existence
Just the persistent
silence
that echoes
across the hall
Why really
bother
living
at all?
I ask to
no one
in particular
How peculiar
and lonely
feeling like
you’re
not here
when you are
feeling like
I’m the only
one
who cares
feeling like
I’m talking to
thin
air
Where are you
ghost-like residents
who claim
they live here?
No where
to be
seen
at
all

 

 

Phu-Linh Tran AUTHOR PHOTO
Phu-Linh Tran is a Melbourne based poet, freelance writer, artist and spoken word performer. She has a passion for combining and repurposing images with text as well as being an anarchist of the art of spoken word. She participates in spoken word events around Melbourne including: P-Word Sessions, Passionate Tongues, Sloth Arts, Be Mused and Girls on Key. Linh won The Spirit of the Festival Award at the end of the 2019 Melbourne Spoken Word Festival alongside local poet Hamish Danks-Brown and was shortlisted for the 2019 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize. She has appeared as a featured poet at Be Mused, Fresh Voices and Poetry at The Dan O’Connell. She released her first chapbook Adventures in P-Minor in 2019.

Cover Photo Credit: Kylie Supski