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• ‘Companion’ by Jackie Hosking

  in death
  she will leave the shape
  of a cat

   
• ‘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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• ‘Values’ by Basil Eliades

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

   
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• ‘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 ...

   

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