To the Sculptress

She was a large woman
Who came by
After work
And would pop her head
Through the door.

Sometimes she'd find me awake
In the kitchen
Cooking a meal
And we'd talk,
And our conversations
Were often nourishing.

I would bring out a blanket & candles,
And we would sit
In my rented backyard
Where we'd watch a day
Die a slow death.

a night would follow closely
and encourage us
to move close

and whisper
our desires.

^

Biography

Brad Evans was born in Sydney, 1971. He was placed into various educational institutions for twenty years, finally escaping in 1997 when poetry became too influential in his life. Some of his latest poems, articles, interviews, and reviews have been, or will soon be, featured in the following zines, magazines (printed / online) and anthologies:

Artemis (UK), Struggle (US), The Great Plastic Elevator Audiozine (US), Labour of Love (CAN), Valley Micropress (NZ), Fire (UK), Southern Ocean Review (NZ), The Australian Writer (AUST), Monkey Kettle (UK), Poet Tree
(UK), Niederngasse (SWTZ), Comrades (UK), The Burning Bush (EIRE), Ixion (UK), Exile (UK), Freefall (US), Crania (UK), Driftnet (UK), Sex, Death & Ronald McDonald (US), The Open Window (CAN), Slacker (UK), Electric Acorn
(EIRE), The Scriberazone (UK), Snakeskin Poetry Webzine (UK), La Petit Zine (US), Zine Zone (UK), The Reater (UK), Centoria (AUST), Lateral Moves (UK), Wonderlust (UK), Poetry DownUnder (AUST), The Animist (AUST), Angel (UK),
The Brobdingnagian Times (EIRE), Skald (UK), Breakfast All Day (FR), Konfluence (UK), Paris / Atlantic (FR), Sivullinen (FNLD), Asphyxia (AUST),
Quantum Leap (UK), Hobo (AUST), Ygdrasil (CAN), Dancing Barefoot (BELG), Apples & Oranges (US), Hjokfinnies Sanglines (UK), Panic! (UK), Roadworks (UK), Markings (UK), Haggard & Halloo (US), Voices of Liberation (UK), Manifold (UK), Poetryism (US), Lochs (UK), In Our Own Words (US), Borderlines (UK), Zimmer-zine (UK), Insurgentz (US), Braquemard (UK), Papillon (UK), At Last (UK), Poezine (UK), Big Bridge (UK), Dream Forge (US), Blue Print (UK).

His first full-length book of poems, 'and them and the jackals and the night', was privately published in March 2001. Brad is also the founder and editor of the print and online journal, Red Lamp, a journal that publishes realist, socialist and humanitarian poetry.