Pack a suitcase

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  • Published 20130604
  • ISBN: 9781922079978
  • Extent: 288 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Pack a suitcase
and find me.

I’m here in rooms
strewn with small purses of coins
and stale cigarettes that
my lungs won’t take in anymore.

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