gold coast fire
A mum rubs her daughters back at the Chinese restaurant and I feel bad I’m not home with my mother in this moment. Its been a year since I’ve been in this exact location at the Gold coast and I wonder if I’ve gotten older or wiser or just older. I walk into the condom […]
What died didn’t stay dead
My immigrant family spent Australia day watching a DVDs from blockbuster every year. My brother and I knew the words to school of rock off by heart but we’d always pick to watch it. We didn’t really associate it with anything other than a day off. I wait for my students to get back to […]
baby we were born to run
I buy kinder chocolate cause I’m about to bleed and I want to relive my childhood. My dad always liked anything German and every time we flew back to Serbia it was via Lufthansa. They used to give us a colouring book to colour in to keep us occupied for the flight and the food […]
Ode to my exes
It feels like i was the last to find my person. “Where is he?” Charlotte York said “I’ve been dating since I was 15.” My fifteen year old boyfriend was a stoner but we bonded over Arctic Monkeys and being intellectuals. We always disagreed politically and made out after school under a tree until we’d […]
Agnes
The two millenials behind me don’t make me proud to be a millenial. I reminisce about my Agnes waters trip whilst listening to their conversation about Indonesian earthquakes that they’re so enlightened by. Before I left, my piano student said “it gets more conservative the more north you go” and I said “I’ve seen the […]
Our bodies have changed
Our bodies have changed in the last seven years but he still looks the same to me. And I wonder if he thinks about the time I felt the texture of his arm tattoo. He said “I hope you don’t mind that I’m getting another tattoo” and I said “it’s your body.” And when we […]
coffs harbour
Whenever I pass Brisbane city hall, I think about getting my citizenship at 7. “We are one but we are many..” I sang with my family. “And from all the lands on earth we come..” When I was a teenager we used to take pictures at area 58, an Asian photo booth that my friends […]
Pisces Season
The woman at the car rental tries to upsell me 3 times but I’m not falling for it. “Someone hit a kangaroo last week so if you get full insurance you won’t have to worry.” I forgot that I had to worry about kangaroos being a liability in Australia. I take my chances. Before she […]
Frost on my windshield
There is frost on my windshield of our 1984 Mercedes. It was quite a popular car at the time. It’s mustard and there is a divider in between the seats my brother and I used to ride and call “horsey!” It is 1997 and I am four; adorable with bangs. My Christmas present that year […]
Drugged up and fluey
Drugged up and fluey,I’ve been wearing the sweatpants for ten days, My mind is in a haze, foggy, confusion I’ve been out of action and I feel like I’m losin’. I’m disconnected from my instrument and I’m questioning what the next thing is and how to proceed, Cause all the fire signs in me are […]