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…”
Read time: 1 min
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’…”
Read time: 1 min
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
A Place to Die In
“While the lemons in the back garden go blue
While the relatives divide up your things”
So that I might know you.
"Once a puddle of clay, now a person passing through you, like the scent of a stranger, in a railway tunnel"
My mother in astral flight
"Through the skin of the river, through the mirror of the sky, past her mind's salt line..."