From the moment our eyes first met, Until your last dying breath, Never could I have foretold, What warmth you brought from the cold. It was only upon finding you, Could I discover a part of me, And with the light, you shined through, I found the courage I was
On Saturday nights, we have dinner at a restaurant she selects from a list on her phone of Trivago’s Top Places to Eat Out in our city. This is our thing, our couple’s thing. In the bathroom mirror, I watch her reflection sweep black liner across her glossy
‘I can see all of Sydney from up here. It’s fucking beautiful, Mum!’ were the last words my son would speak to me. Or shout, rather, from the top of the Norfolk Pine. Then would come the creek and snap of its tallest branches, the thumping of my heart,
I’m sitting at the window seat on the lower level of a train, caked in layers of clothing like strata. I’m early but the train was already here getting cleaned, and they said I could sit inside to keep out of the chill. It’s frozen and dark
unfurling the plastered papyrus of a dead little girl guffawing; what novelty! gripping her dislodged jaw gnashing her teeth together - look at her laugh the scarab beetle ‘round her neck glistens then gone; plucked with manicured fingers threaded through a silver chain and placed atop the corseted chest of
at the bottom of stairs I am waiting big stupid grin splayed across face it’s your lunch break (or the end of an early day) a bouquet of flowers crooked against my forearm or a tiny flower that fits in my palm (no one is really sure) and you
ask people we know is the first thing I wrote, then lists: yours and owls soda ice cube tray bread milk fruit Hamish in Queensland. Turn the page for 13/8 Habossem St; Egem Pension, Kemalyeri, Cannakkale; the Fedriades Hotel in Delphi - don't make me fly home;
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