this is why I don’t parade
naked in front of you, how I lie
tight
under sheets as far from you
as sleep, why I write –

to screen myself with
anything
prettier than indignity, spicier than
disintegrating time.
Something that might
survive.

Victoria McGrath

 

Victoria McGrath is a poet from regional New South Wales and has been widely published in journals and anthologies in Australia and the US, including Cordite and Best Australian Poems. She was nominated for the US Best of The Net Award and shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize.

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