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From: Vol.03 N.02 – Decolonisation and Geopoethics

Morning Light

by Hannah Clinton

Ruthless,

your pressing nail catching

on the Queen’s ivory shoulder

 

our fishbowl memories

\scorched and

paddling through cracked eggshell and slick bubbles

in a shallow basin

 

scorched — the

sunrise

licks the salt stain

 

greedy     sheepdog eyes

loving; wet

under the sink you found a mothy web

tossed undercover

at the scene of the incident

 

and, incidentally

as light rays, striking

find

 

a heel-dug ditch

in the embankment

a reprise of a lost traveller

the flinching impress of ivy and barbed wire

Published: July 2016
Hannah Clinton

is a Melbourne based writer and recent Graduate of Monash University. Her poems take the Australian landscape, as both a real and imagined place, as a primary point of inspiration. Her poetry has previously been published in Verge 2013: Becoming.

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