The Corpse Flower, Geelong Botanical Gardens
“Limbs splayed out. Inner flesh.
An infested wound. Reopened for inspection…”
Inked with Love: A Morning Soon
“Your warmth better blanket me more than the thickest duvet ever
could...”
Remembrance of things eaten: ANZAC Biscuits
“You eat what they ate,
And their spirit lives on in you…”
Read time: 1 min
Inked with Love: Burial
“Knowing that what you are now is in there, somewhere, I can’t take another step.”
Inked with Love: Easter
‘So I lend my heart to you,
not through words,
but through
chocolate eggs…’
Remembrance of things eaten: Zooper Dooper
“Hardened slime.
Stretchy alien hide…”
Read time: 1 min
Coming Out (Again)
“I write my story.
Constantly coming out, constantly afraid.
No one knows who I am unless I tell them.
I am tired of the cycle…”
Read time: 1 min
Remembrance of things eaten: String Cheese
“Flaying a cheese man into lactose shreds…”
Read time: 30 sec
Remembrance of things eaten: Roll Ups
“Hardened slime.
Stretchy alien hide…”
Read time: 1 min
Remembrance of things eaten: Vegemite
“Thick black ectoplasm of salty yeast extract.
The sickly sap of a burnt-out rainforest…”
Read time: 1 min
Remembrance of things eaten: Dunkaroo and frog in a pond
“Drowning a marsupial in a pool of frosting…”
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Remembrance of things eaten: Mandarin
“Puncturing the orange exocarp through the middle with my thumb.
Peeling it back to reveal the soft squishy fingers…”
Read time: 1 min
Remembrance of things eaten: Mixed Lollies
“An overfilled white paper bag of,
Shiny meteorites…”
Read time: 1 min
Remembrance of things eaten: Chops
“Thick and colourless,
Chewy gristle.
Blackened within…”
Read time: 1 min
Remembrance of things eaten: Fish stick
“Pulling into the servo,
Ordering a minimum chips,
Adding the aptly named ‘fish stick’…”
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Birds flying high, you know how I feel
Content warning: themes of racism
*The end of a flight from Melbourne to Perth goes a little something like this…”
Read time: 1 minute