• ‘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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• ‘Companion’ by Jackie Hosking

  in death
  she will leave the shape
  of a cat

   
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• ‘Tattooed Hooves’ by Lorraine Marwood

  The outline of horse’s hooves
  are tattooed into the drought
  baked road. White clay
  gravel hard, and the echo ...

   
• ‘everything we ever changed our minds about’ by Sean M Whelan

  you told me
  you loved it when the trees changed their minds
  and covered the ground
  with a million veined post-it notes ...

   
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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 ...

   

About Angela Smith

Angela is a Melbourne poet and lawyer. Her poetry has been published widely in poetry journals and literary magazines including Meanjin, Quadrant, Arena Magazine, Paper Wasp, Poetrix and Forum Magazine. Her work also appears in the anthology Adelaide Tales (Wakefield Press, 2008) and in Melbourne Reflections (Poetica Christi Press, 2009). Angela has been the recipient of two Young Adult Fiction residencies at Varuna – The Writers’ House, N.S.W.