• ‘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. ...

   
• ‘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 ...

   
• ‘first frost’ by Rob Scott

  first frost --
  the kindling takes
  with a hiss

   
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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 ...

   
• ‘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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• ‘I will see you there when I go’ by Andrew Bromage

  Outside the Library,
  the pigeons do to Redmond Barry
  what Ned Kelly never could.

   

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