Hisstory

February 7, 2026
4 weeks

Dubai, today’s desert marvel,

seems solid. Rushing, rising,

going, slowing only for cons-

truction of babelesque towers.

 

Sicily, composed of yesterday,

liquid as watercolour, Etna’s

molten heart, those limestone

temples of a Greece that was.

 

Tasmania is forever as ever.

Ethereal Eden with no god

other than Nature. Knowing

snakes will have last word.

Allan Lake

Allan Lake, originally from Saskatoon, Canada, has lived in Vancouver, Cape Breton, Ibiza, Tasmania, Melbourne and Sicily. He has won Elwood Poetry Prize, Lost Tower Publications (UK) Competition and Melbourne Spoken Word Poetry Fest, and his poetry has been published in The Hong Kong Review, Quadrant Mag, Cordite Poetry Rev, The American Writers Rev, Tokyo Poetry Journal, The Antigonish Rev, New Philosopher and The Fabians Review. His latest chapbook of poems, “My Photos of Sicily”, was published by Ginninderra Press.

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