everything we ever changed our minds about
you told me
you loved it when the trees changed their minds
and covered the ground
with a million veined post-it notes
carefully detailing every reason why
you called it
the transparent government of nature
I called it
one more reason to love you
the trees had no strong opinion
either way
About Sean M Whelan
Sean M Whelan has been a writer and performer of spoken word, poetry and short stories for almost ten years. His written work has been widely published both locally and overseas. His spoken word performances have been broadcast on radio 3RRR and JJJ, Australia’s National Youth Radio Station. In 2003 he traveled to New York as part of an Australia Council grant to perform at the launch of Short Fuse, a global collection of Fusion Poetry. Since 2005 Sean has worked extensively with Melbourne rock band The Mime Set. Their debut performance was for the 2005 Melbourne Fringe Festival with a show titled Death To Your Dreams. It was a collaboration of poetry and music. Since then they have written two more Fringe Festival shows together, LCUK: Falling In and Out of Luck in 2006 and Sweet Cowboy in 2007. Sweet Cowboy was also co-written by Emilie Zoey Baker. In 2007 Sean was invited to perform at the Utan Kayu International Literary Biennale in Jakarta, Indonesia. Sean also is one of the co-ordinators of one of Melbourne's most popular regular spoken word events called Babble and Liner Notes, held at Bar Open, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. His first collection of poetry was published in 2003 by Hit & Miss publications titled Love is the New Hate. In 2008 his second book of poetry, Tattooing the Surface Of The Moon was published by Small Change Press. http://www.loveisthenewhate.blogspot.com/ http://www.myspace.com/seanmwhelan
