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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 ...

   
• ‘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. ...

   
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• ‘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 ...

   
• ‘the house of water’ by Alana Kelsall

  I crumple the sea in my dreams wake
  to the shallow pool of my head
  I should go North lose weight catch up
  with the other divers hear words slip jelly-like ...

   
• ‘grey dawn’ by Yvonne Sullivan

  grey dawn
  thin old moon
  alone and radiant

   
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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 ...

   

About Tim Hamilton

Tim Hamilton has two chapbooks and has written articles for the Melbourne Poet's Union. He has performed his work at many open stage gigs, on TV and radio as well as internationally. He is also part of the organising committee for the Melbourne poetry festival, Overload.