Johanna's BlogLisa Gorton
Lisa Gorton lives in Melbourne. She has published poems and essays in journals and anthologies, including the Australian Book Review and Heat. She received a grant from the Australian Council and the poems written during that time were shortlisted in the Australian Book Review annual poetry competition. She has a doctorate in Renaissance Literature from Oxford University. In 2009 she worked on the Papercuts program with the Year 10 students of Fitzroy High School to create Toilet Doors poetry.
Occupation
Listen. We can talk here,
this republic in your empire of intention.
Know when you step out of this door again
corridors will take you
as if they knew the way and could explain.
But the unending rhetoric of transit r
returns to the cubicle. NO, this upright casket
where you sit like the soul of the wall
or buried Vestal
in the aloneness of your life, that lustre on tiles no graffiti confides.
