‘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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