POETRY
If voting fails, break glass
It goes without saying that spells of this kind generally require a kitten; At least one, more if there’s a storm brewing — the weather Is a fickle assistant. As to breed, well — the more docile specimens Tend to disrupt proceedings less. Location is your discretion:…
A box of old photos
In storage, one cardboard box filled with photographs. I know one grey envelope contains: Peppy, full name Peppermint, Aged 2 or so, inspecting one minuscule ball of black kitten fluff, Two weeks old, soon to be Nemesis, by name if not by nature. In storage, seventeen…
Peggy
She’s practiced at it. You can tell: expensive dress, eyeshadow just so. The way she dips her eyes and glances over your shoulder, as if There’s something she’s idly wondering but of course, it’s a ruse. She’s scanning escape routes and planning getaways she never…
Every heart a doorway
Thresholds have never been what you’d call safe And over the years, the rituals have gotten silly (after all, the phrase swept off her feet’ only make sense Where a certain kind of force is called a bridal carry’). And love (well, trust) creaks open old wood with or…
And you are listening
It is 10.40pm in Paris and they have taken hostages at the Bataclan It is 11pm and somewhere on Facebook a kid posts: “they are killing everybody. one by one.” It is 4pm in Melbourne and my friend is giving birth to a little boy named Clancy but I don’t know that yet.…
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