cute trip 2 the zoo
Rebecca Hawkes’ chapbook ‘Softcore coldsores’ was published in AUP New Poets 5 to reignite the series in 2019. She co-edits the journal Sweet Mammalian and is a founding member of…
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Aubade for Larks in December
The sky waits to be cleaved like a tongue against a railing. You scratch the paper walls, wings aching for warmth. Sirens slice through…
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IF I’M A WATER-BEARING AIR SIGN DOES THAT MAKE ME PERSPIRATION?: AUGUST + SEPTEMBER
I spent all of August at Grandma’s house to help her recover from ill-health. Did the grocery orders, weeded the garden, painted the windowsills….
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IF I’M A WATER-BEARING AIR SIGN DOES THAT MAKE ME PERSPIRATION?: JULY
Jasmine Shirrefs is a zine maker, dog parent, writer and social work student living on Boon Wurrung land. They were a Wheeler Centre…
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Springsteen Down Aisle Five
Three days after Emma’s breakup I decided to check in on her over the phone. She missed my call but rang back ten minutes…
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I Take My Virtual Body to the Sistine Chapel
I figure out how to flip the perspective entirely upside-down, so that my virtual body stands on the frescoed ceiling, hunched beneath a tiled roof.
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Tiger Balm
When I was sick my mother would rub tiger balm on my belly and let me watch Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady I…
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city privacy we (women of the new era)
the bridges build walls the cars glide over bridges the gum trees evergreen the excavation of the wetlands paves way for the great highway…
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Polished
ONE: There are only so many bottles of pink nail polish, too many minuscule toenails to be painted a delicate shade of Peptol-Bismol rose….
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