27 April 2025
18 June 2025
submitted for Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 12 2025 on 18 June 2025
today
all my thought bubbles are in purple uppercase
panko
my speech to myself is piss on the mirror
my eyeballs go click click i’ll have to reprogram them but
the ease in my body is sumptuous as a calm sunrise (relatively
speaking, and seen from a great distance,
the sun is always calm but it doesn’t always beam because everything
is a backdrop for mood like you didn’t expect it to come
from a quiet voice like the sun’s
unitary thought equation, because
all my feelings are, well, cogent as sunrise
and my speech speeds its reverse)
how can i leave anything i feel to experience
?
so…
a military extraction is inevitable in this
first moment of the day