This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.
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I pull out my patched I There’s a new cut in it, bleeding gently, persistently I try to suture it, but the stitches hurt more than the blade—that blade made a clean, sparkling pain, a sudden fizz, a breath-catch— I try to anaesthetise, but numbness is unthinkable, terrifying, now, after that blade so I give Read more
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Work done for now, we go out Motley friends and associates We have a cheap meal in a tacky restaurant with the sports channel on a huge screen above the table Men, 22, 23, lithe and powerful, risk their lives on bikes We laugh about some bloke called Dave who lived with his rickety mother Read more
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(for two voices) It’s just a thing. Just a thing. We did the research. We measured it. Don’t bother to write, to sing. It’s just a thing. But when we held each other naked to the waist the skin over our hearts pressed close— That’s just pheromones, chemicals, your oxytocin receptors firing. We did the Read more
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There’s a live radio version from 2012 in this interview. Fly free, I said. I wanted to fly. On my back, wings have grown: their bones from structures of thought, their sinews from lines of ideas, their muscles from patterns of rhythm, their layered feathers from notes and rests Here on the ground with a Read more
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The man I want is smart enough to think in metaphor and reason by analogy. He reads. The man I want has a dangerous lean to the left. He’s quietly spiritual, with hope but not delusion. The man I want likes conversation better than TV. He likes to sit around late at night, talking. He Read more
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I’m the featured poet in the following three episodes of Red Lobster, a poetry program that screened on Northern Access Television, Melbourne. Some of the open-mike poets aren’t bad either 🙂 Look out for Jennifer Compton, Maurice McNamara, and David McLauchlan, who is also the cameraman and producer. We were filmed at WestWord on 8 Read more
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