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9 Poems*

 

Caroline Reid

 

 

 

 

Sabbath

 

 

whipped potatoes all weekend! said god

whipped potatoes and gravy dribbling down

plain pork chops thinking pork chops

thinking Shake’N Bake chicken

and egg.

he was so drunk

he couldn’t stand

he just left

went back out cursing

the stuff still on the table.

 

 

 

 

Awake

 

 

Blink. Blink. Blink. Blink.

 

She would see everything.

 

 

 

 

Sun

 

 

she was

 

daylight spilling in the window

 

 

 

open again

 

open

 

 

 

 

Moon

 

 

singing

sometimes

 

briskly

 

 

late-night

quietly

 

splashing

 

 

 

 

A note on

 

 

          Stupid

 

you

you

you

You

you

you

           thing

you

 

 

 

 

Infinity

 

 

today went on      forever

white   white        and white      again

white   on white   on white        white

                                                   after

                                                   and against

                                                   blue

the room was        shivering

but she was           nothing

not even                white

 

 

 

 

Gone

 

 

oh god

what the

do you

I don’t

are we

would we

it’s so

going now

and he was

 

 

 

 

Kitchen Stories

 

 

women linked

with the girls

living tomorrow     tomorrow

 

 

the low-down ache of music

surprised her

 

ordinary losing music

 

kind of smoky like

 

 

 

 

Love

 

 

like desire

 

came

softly

 

 

in

 

 

 

*Found poems: All text sourced from Kim Wozencraft’s Wanted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A writer of poetry, short stories and plays, Caroline Reid regularly performs her work and has been published in journals and anthologies including Bath Flash Fiction Award, Verity La, 4W, Indigo, Seizures and Review of Australian Fiction.  She lives and works in Adelaide, Australia. 

 

 


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