Whelk
Elena Gomez is a poet and editor based in Melbourne.
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Pigs Foot
‘Pig’s foot, pig’s foot!’ My mother vaults the words over the Woolie’s meat counter, shouting it louder and louder just as she called…
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Moon/stone
I love, I’m loving now, I’m in love with,a stone—one that careens and jumps and lives.It shines green in the sky, shaggy with moss.It…
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2x Poems
Zenobia Frost is a poet from Brisbane whose work — about feminism, place attachment and pop culture — has won the Val Vallis Prize…
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Passage
Mother was glad I visited the cathedral. I was glad too. I visited for selfish reasons, though; I visited to appreciate art and architecture….
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Gardening Experiments
The attic is small and cramped, the two work tables occupying a good portion of the space, the floor littered with all sorts of…
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DANCERS
It was winter when I went to the strip club, a few months after graduation. After ten minutes – are you here for a…
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More Light than Heat
“Don’t you think she’s adorable?” Conversation floods around you in full, un-subtitled glory. Your father, normally stiff-limbed and red-faced, holds court over a pot…
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Star Signs of accelerating climate disaster
Aries – Ah, the ram! All rams will die. Taurus – Ah, the bull! All bulls will die. Except John. Gemini – The…
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