Res Derelictae – a term from Roman law meaning “abandoned property” – is a long poem sculpted almost entirely out of language stolen from a myriad of sources: John Keats’s Hyperion, the poems of Ern Malley, podcasts, junk mail, overheard speech, Netflix shows, children’s books, Wikipedia entries, Grey Gardens, Augustine’s Confessions, and too many other sources to remember. Composed over a period of six months through a process of slow linguistic accretion, Res Derelictae’s collage poetics argues for a language held in common by all – Omnia sunt communia – as it highlights daily moments that are mundane and sublime, dystopian and utopian.