{"id":80375,"date":"2016-07-02T13:36:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T13:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=80375"},"modified":"2016-07-03T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T14:03:48","slug":"pambrown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/pambrown\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Affair with weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Pam Brown.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

I have the time
\n         to worry<\/p>\n

         every day
\nI check the temperature
\n             in Taormina
\non World Weather<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

‘losing my religion’
\ncost $2.19
\n         I don’t know
\n             what
\n   I expected to pay<\/p>\n

‘we drink to forget
\n    the coming storm’
\n         discounted
\n   $1.69 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

     refining the skill of peeling
\n         small oval stickers
\n           off the mangoes
\n     without damaging the skins<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

I’d like
\n     to say something now
\n     but outside
\n     the planes
\n     heading off
\n       \t are so noisy<\/p>\n

I’ll wait <\/p>\n

         the eastern curlews
\n         are leaving too
\n             (for china –
\n         counter-survival
\n           land clearing)<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

slim hope –
\nour collapsed planet
\nmight recover
\n         & I need a myth
\n             that says so<\/p>\n

need to restore
\n             ‘normalcy’
\nthe commentator said<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

it was awful
\n            in the taxi
\n             silence
\n         a tense silence
\n         contrived as rest
\nI became
\n         an idiot
\n     small talking
\n         to myself<\/p>\n

    you didn’t help<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

         turned on
\n         The Velvet Doghouse
\nbecause nothing
\nsounded better
\nlast time I listened<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

         what did I do
\n             to deserve this<\/p>\n

(the women’s question)<\/p>\n

or what did
\n     I \tever<\/p>\n

do<\/p>\n

            \t\toptional<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

stale cigarette odour
\nswamps the hallway <\/p>\n

it’s the agoraphobe
\n             next door<\/p>\n

puffing away<\/p>\n

the agora<\/em> can be overwhelming
\n             even if it’s just
\n             a supermarket<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

not ‘being conceptual’
\n                 if tv’s on
\n             we always
\n         watch the weather
\nat the end of the world news
\n         we have a thing for it<\/p>\n

     a love affair with weather<\/p>\n

         is that boring for you
\n                 so boring
\n         you needn’t know<\/p>\n

so boring as to be so bent<\/p>\n

\t *<\/p>\n

you are welcome
\n             to stop reading
\n             this poem now
\nwhoever you are<\/p>\n

thanks<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

             becoming light
\n         early in the morning <\/p>\n

         becoming patchy
\n     in the middle of the day<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

sometimes
\nI dread the agora<\/em> too
\n         like, panel talking
\n                 performing poems
\n        queueing for tickets
\n             (general admission)
\neveryone expectant
\nkeen
\nlooking ahead of them
\n& upwards<\/p>\n

I don’t actually go anywhere
\n                 much<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

clear
\nshowers easing
\ntomorrow, mostly sunny
\n     sunlight on compromise
\n         unfinished
\n             table of contents<\/p>\n

\"Brown\"<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong>
\nPam Brown has been active in all kinds of ventures in the multitudinous and continually shifting zone of Australian poetry and in other cultural scenes for over four decades. She has published widely and is also a contributing editor for several magazines and independent presses. Pam Brown grew up on military bases which possibly ‘explains something’. She has held a variety of day jobs but happily avoided a career in any one of them. With stints in various local and foreign cities, she has spent most of her adult life in Sydney. Her most recent book of poems, Missing up<\/em>, was published by Vagabond Press in 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Brown\"<\/p>\n

         is that boring for you
\n                 so boring
\n         you needn’t know<\/p>\n

so boring as to be so bent<\/p>\n

\t *<\/p>\n

you are welcome
\n             to stop reading
\n             this poem now
\nwhoever you are<\/p>\n

thanks<\/p>\n

By Pam Brown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}