Adjustments
A cry swerves into sleep.
I fumble for an off switch.
*
A head nods and dips
like a buoy and floats away.
*
We wake towards
a bubbling inarticulacy.
About the Poet
Aidan Coleman’s two collections of poetry, Avenue and Runways and Asymmetry have been shortlisted for numerous national book awards in Australia. He writes Shakespeare textbooks and is a co-designer of the MOOC Shakespeare Matters with the AdelaideX project. His poems have been published in The Australian, The Age, Australian Book Review, Best Australian Poems, The Carolina Quarterly, Poetry Ireland Review and Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Adelaide.