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Special N.02 – Poets speak up to Adani

Fairy Floss

by Jennifer Harrison

spun to its finest skeins

with all the strands of the past

 

cohering

around a flimsy balsa stick

 

this soft numb form

is like life’s airy drift

 

the flimsiest tangle

of  DNA

 

you, me

the taste of becoming

 

the idea that sex

is about melting

 

each other

under no one’s tongue

Published: August 2022
Jennifer Harrison

is a contemporary Australian poet. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Born in Liverpool, Sydney, Harrison studied medicine and then specialised in psychiatry.

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journal of ecopoetry and ecopoetics.

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