Citation
Gibbins, I. (2016), "Prospectus", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 29 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-01-2016-2393
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Prospectus
Article Type: Literature and Insights From: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Volume 29, Issue 6.
1. Review
Only a satellite command away, sweet nectarines,
Indian Ocean on a plate, pale muslin sun wrapping
the endpapers of my book. Rosellas ignore persistent
radio static, as do I, in a wash of lodestone shine and
copper blue affirmation on my wrist, as do we, again
denying gridlock and superseded parenthetic asides.
2. Year to date
No longer marking time, the world does not stop,
the second hand still skips a little in advance of eleven,
and I miss the cue for yet another all-for-one chorus
in this live-to-air broadcast of wish and idle whim,
unconcerned for the state of play, an approaching
cold front, hopelessly misaddressed correspondence.
3. Portfolio
Amid claim and counter-claim in the National Park,
just the rarity of fragile beasts; or the fire-resistance of
spider-orchids, button-daisies, local varieties of Hakea;
optionally, the number of paths leading to historic camp
sites, rediscovered run-offs, occasional undrawn sketches
transcribed into cloudcast nearly everyone once knew.
4. Statistics
Reading between the lines (depreciating fickle reversal,
enigmatic cusp, foolhardy hypotenuse), current trends will
hold as true as yesterday’s whitebait, actuarial sagacity
will come to fruition somewhere after mango season, stocks
will mature before the perihelion of Mars, and I, sitting on
a hiding to nothing, should skip a dodge tide and go surfing.
5. Outlook
Orion guards the northern architrave, deflects incoming
hailstorms and solar flares. “Thank you for your recent
communication.” Freight trains rattle a distance where
respiratory pressure equilibrates, supple, beyond incipient
trek and restitution. Spellcheck now complete, I activate
autoreply, hit <enter>, calmly disregard low battery alerts.
Ian Gibbins - Niteshifter Productions, Adelaide, Australia