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 […]
End of the year feels
I swiped right on a guy who looked like my ex and manifested the same person. He made me book the reservation so I booked myself as the company. When I asked him what he liked about me, he said “I’m not gonna love bomb you like the other guys” and I said “why not?” […]
A new home
August 2022 – the day I moved in, I slept on the couch. This is the biggest place I’ve lived in on my own and the walls whisper my name in them. I will miss my built in bookshelf. I’m sad I have to sell my bed but I know it’s happening for a higher […]
Great Keppel Island
The day of her funeral I saw a white crow and I knew she had crossed over.When I didn’t buy the radishes i knew it would happen. And in a way I wanted the suffering to end. Death is the ultimate surrender.As I crack eggs, I remember the sound and how many times I’ve heard […]
Hot showers
Hot showers after long days of teaching piano. I scrub my body with magnesium as the water drips down along my legs. Thick thighs, tiny tits, fat ass, my body shapes itself for the next stage. When I saw my friend’s baby body I said “your areolas are huge!” and she laughed. He made me […]
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 […]