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Cleave
Arrival THEY ARRIVE AT the town just after nightfall. Stand at the town sign looking up at it: Population 2,500,...
Annah the Javanese
Pol drags the chair near, steps up onto it to hammer a nail into the wall above the mantelpiece. He squats to lift a painting of a woman seated in a rocking chair. As he attaches it to the wall, Annah steps back, enraptured by the languid lines of the woman, her black hair, her cinnamon skin, which is the same shade as Annah’s own. The woman’s dress is as red as a nutmeg’s lacy mace. Her bare foot reaches from beneath its folds.
Aleksandrinke
SHE IS WRITTEN deep in Slovenian folklore, stuttering into existence in ballads, songs, myths, legends. A woman repeated, kept...
Ingredients for preservation
Wear calico dress with Blueboard shoes, Corflute wings, Mylar glasses, dangling Ethafoam earrings. Create houses for each object. Know what is inside without a reference image. Bundle up...
The morning fog (A Golden Shovel after Kate Bush)
is sweetest at the Tropic of Capricorn, the colour of lemon chiffon cake, and just as light. It might begin with...
Cape York
When you arrive at the tip of the Cape, the coast opens its arms and you’re split into the rivulets left...
Pursuit music
We drove for years past Super 8s & motor inns, blue neon swimming like luminol across the windscreen, cruised by phone...
Routines
About once a day I think about the wetness of Ellen’s eyes as Obama placed the Presidential Medal of...
Meteorology
I can predict the future. A little. And everyone loves to talk about the weather. I find what patterns I...
Orison
Three days later, we bought a Newton’s cradle. Put it on the table, and heartsick, tried to click click click our way...
Q&A
[What are some common sources of light?] And, can light survive exposure to extreme temperatures? These are both questions we are...
Cancelled on the overground railroad
When we call someone out, we do it with the full knowledge that all previous attempts to remedy harm have been shot down, avoided or negated, and the trial of public opinion is the final card to play. If anything, a call-out is an indictment on any given community regarding its inability to act on the issue in private.
