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I dreamed X in a swimming pool a man on the side with a stopwatch a race I in the water too with others all competing I dreamed X won because part of the scoring was on how elegantly you moved your body I just couldn't match her flow I would move nicely for a Read more

At Cottesloe Beach, 2015 Dadda! Dadda! a toddler screams Dadda! Dadda! Dadda! Dadda! Dadda! Dadda! Dadda is chiselled, hard-bodied, striding up the beach in rash top, mid-thigh shorts, expensive, tight Under his right arm like a rugby ball he carts a little girl held horizontal, facing the ground wriggling and kicking against his grip screaming Read more

Bananas sound like chop chop chop. My daughter (18) with her stick-insect wrists cutting them up to freeze and blend. My kitchen is full of their fat-free sweat. I don’t know how to talk about it. I pick one up and touch it to my nose. Close, the skin has its own dun scent. Some Read more

Mens underpants! black, plain Against them my     white lines stand out Mens underpants! solid-seamed, heavy-hemmed, broad in the crotch So much space for my generosity Mens underpants! in the mirror They cover the caesar scar trench in my flesh Mens underpants! dark, flat Against them my     fair rondure stands out In them I     am so much more of Read more

A man on the train I’m opposite him A sagfaced man      who must once have been fat A man perhaps forty      with thinning dark hair      a rough laugh      and a phone to his ear A man in black sunglasses      on this grey day A man whose open shirt lapels      frame a small show      of dark Read more