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• ‘hazel’ by Ashley Capes

  little girl sweeps herself
  across the park
  a pretty burn
  of yellow cloth ...

   
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• ‘iron grows in supernovas’ by Maurice McNamara

  ten billion light years away a star explodes
  its light still out there
  building the iron for my car
  the dust that built our planet earth ...

   
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• ‘da Vinci’s List’ by Alicia Sometimes

  Leonardo da Vinci wrote a list
  of things he wanted to know:
  the cause of tickling
  the tongue of the woodpecker ...

   
• ‘Chick Lit’ by Vivian Yang

  I am a chick
  You don’t call it lit
  But I read it.
  I am the protagonist
  The girl who loses part of herself ...

   

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