say imagine a patchwork on a daily tide billowing

gulping

a colony, incapable of loneliness, each for each

attached

 

say a fantasia of yesterday’s frocks, shirts, pyjamas

stitched

summon another dimension of fixings and fastenings

can you?

 

say she is walking, one foot zigs as the other one zags

say she sighs

say she plots

unlatching, surreptitious unbuttoning, working free

 

her eyes are so innocent that they don’t know what her

hands are doing

 

Jennifer Compton

 

Jennifer Compton lives in Melbourne and is a poet and playwright who also writes prose.

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