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Olive
05:06
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A leaf under glass
in the dark museum quiet
a cocoon of dimness
a circle of light
opens beneath my feet
and I am a pool of skirts
a puddle of cotton:
For how, how, how, how, how
can science tell...
The two thousand year old story
of a dark haired, olive skinned maiden
who lay under
the lattice light of leaves
and harvested the fruits?
But it couldn't tell your body
to stop eating itself away.
And mum, mum, mum, mum, mum
what should I do?
When the storm of a terrible day breaks
I want a pool of translucent thoughts
watery-green
cool
swimming with shimmering fishes.
I want the breeze to kiss the walls of my mind
papered with all the best pieces of you
But I don't want the piece, I want the whole.
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Violet
05:09
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Here where the earth collects the rain
Am I salty or sour,
Pickled or brined?
There, take a scalpel to my womb
And I spill like caviar
Tumble and sink into the season.
I have always wanted
A garden that fills each year
With deep green, creeping violet leaves.
Here wrapped up in a paper gown
My clothes a perfect folded square,
White webs of tissue dancing on a screen
There beneath the cold, cold jelly slides
The lump in my breast
Is it something, or simply nothing at all?
I used to think I wanted
Not just the garden
But to sow my stories in a child's breast
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In the waiting room
the clocks are holding their breath.
If like Sappho the smallest fragments of my life are found,
How will I be rebuilt again?
Reassembled word by word?
In the waiting room
the clocks are holding their breath.
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Here within your arms I am a flower
Pressed between the pages of a book,
A leaf within a leaf
All my colours safe within your heart
My story pinned
Firmly to your chest
So rake cool damp soil across my belly
Let me return each year
To wander freely on your breath.
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Lemon
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Erica Bramham Melbourne, Australia
Genre-slippery songs, soundscapes and improvisations.
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