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Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.

December 27

Sundown’s skies are warm like a picnic – scuffs of cloud like shiny scarabs jewelled into the evening’s tide. I sit...

picker

light’s tacked to the window i  want it to pick at me eat  me like fairy floss or a scab you  say...

In the Dollhouse

I don’t remember my Barbies, but Mother once told me I had  twist-popped their limbs  off. I do recall this one doll...

Cinema

I cry in the cinema Or not cry So hard that my head aches with the holding back Not in the film When...

Threshold

What is the voice of one who has died if no one listened to what remained unspoken? It no longer matters.

Exeunt

The mirage of beer before their eyes. Barney wipes his feet upon the mat unaccustomed to such luxuries.

Before I forget again

I am a ceramic horse in kintsugi  fields. Shards shred my tongue to gold  rivers. Cracked and crazed – from fire  gallops beast. Memory slips  lapis lazuli. I break  curses, gather spells. Nudge  fresh letters in water troughs – watch words bob – shiny  new apples...

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