Toby Fitch

b. 1981, London

Toby Fitch is a Sydney-based poet who has been published in a number of Australian journals including Meanjin and Southerly. His first collection of poems, a pamphlet called Everyday Static, will be published by Vagabond Press in late 2010. He features in Episode 6 of The Wordshed.

He is currently applying the finishing touches to his first full-length book of poems, Raw Shock, a sample of which can be read here: tobyfitch.blogspot.com 

Dyslexic


                                                Who would’ve thought that
at birth, my double-helix world would be dropped  

on its head — that it would spiral on its mis-
informed axis into grand self-delusions   

— upside-down, dyslexic! What an  
eternalisation of nothing but ego

standing on its head, looking 

down at the sky, the abyss —

cities like stalactites, 

elevators to the tips.

I drop my lot out the windows, 

watch it plummet into space — take  

out birds along the way to the cosmic
pits. The poles will capsize (or right them-

selves, who knows?) — so to breathe in the 

auroras orbiting the meridians, I hang myself from

lightning conductors like a big red, weighted balloon 

                                                     awaiting my last breath.

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