POETRY
Rainbow Serpent
I am the world tree I am the woman, my branches reaching I am the serpent, entwined This is a story ancient and common My roots reach around a globe I feel all and know all I am light and desire And I created the earth I shed my self and the woman remembers I stroke…
California Vignette 1
For B.W. At home, she tries on voices, accents echoing around rooms. She says she can’t hold one down, that she is sliding towards a future language, not yet invented. She spends her days planning for disasters she hopes won’t happen. Her life is filled with…
Why we did nothing
For David Hicks, five years in Guantanamo Bay without charge They torture him, Because he is Muslim Because he fought on the wrong side Because he is different from them Yet we do nothing. They create laws with an eerily familiar ring, Because they cannot see past…
Outback justice
[after an increase in sexual disfigurement of indigenous women was reported in The Age newspaper] I say no, don’t want that now, and he say, fine, Then no one gonna have you. Pours his stuff on me He been huffin’, they all do, Drops his durrie and I flame up Like it’s…
Rapunzel goes exploring
She’s a delicate rose Found in flowery prose And I’m not her. He reads seductive books Where those kinds of looks Are all you need. I’ve always preferred My words to be heard. A different end: Rapunzel rolls up her sleeves, Cuts her hair, weaves Her…
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