Septuplus

Illustration by Matt Mawson.

Skulls and bones descend on host city Brisbane this week for the 2014 G20 Summit. 

For those who weren't invited to attend, Bumf has published a special G20 issue. They asked me to contribute, and the result is Septuplus, a suite of poems comprised of "From the Land of the People Without Money," "Banquet," "Exhaling Birds," "Anthropogenesis," "Global Positioning System," "Oratory," and "Sine Die," with a frontispiece excerpt from Attar's The Conference of the Birds.

Here's "Oratory":

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Read the entire issue here.