Moving Galleries

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• ‘sun after rain’ by Carla Sari

  sun after rain
  a fox dares me to cross
  her path

   
• ‘busking on the bridge at Footscray Station’ by Peter Davis

  The wind rhymes with the sound of their pants

  brushing against their legs. The music must shift

  to a higher register, whenever the diesel trains roar. ...

   
• ‘hazel’ by Ashley Capes

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

   
• ‘Values’ by Basil Eliades

  We have velvet theories
  about boys becoming men,
  the mysteries of plumbing ... 

   
• ‘Self Esteem?’ by Sigourney Young

  Do my ears look big in this?
  You’d tell me if they did,
  Right?
  Cause my forearm clashes with my pants. ...

   
• ‘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 ...

   
• ‘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 ...

   
• ‘Happiness’ by Chi Vu

  She bought a new car, a
  4WD, and for the first
  time in her life, she
  was still unhappy.

   
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About Ashlee Higgins