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CONAL FITZPATRICKA Brown Dog, Off A ChainIn Queensland when weather-cocks brew up a storm,and the isobars panic, and draw circles round the eye,and birds in their element sail off to nowhereon the certain extent of their wings,(a reverse updraft swimming)two men with hats will take stock at a bar,pause barely an instant,and call up the wind marks of memory:of The Big Blow That Year (at Christmas it was!)of a city undoing itself,of The One in Sixty-Two (odds always against us!)and of flattening Athena (that foreigner wreaking white havoc!)and sooner, (unlikely)or later when the talking is tall,like the glass army, dead marines mounting before themas high as the clock on the wall,the dog is brought outas a totem, a gauge,and at the height of the reefwindis torn like a leaf off its chain.100WESTERLY, No.2, JUNE, 1989