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Isabella G Mead

Isabella G Mead is a poet and PhD candidate from Melbourne. Her debut poetry collection, The Infant Vine, will be published by UWAP in 2024. She lives, writes and raises her young family on unceded Wurundjeri land.

Reflections on a Waiting Room Lithograph

after Käthe Kollwitz’s ‘Mothers holding their sick children waiting to consult a physician’ (1920), lithograph I. No one knows exactly how paracetamol works: its mechanism for reducing the body’s temperature a black box according to a lengthy article on the …

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I Cutlass Spent Days With an X

Question: What does every ancient reef forget? Answer: That time stopped for it several thousand years ago. The line resembles a stain on the sundial’s brow. Imprecise, fading outward, crowned by the earth’s long furlough from dust and heat. A …

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The Salience Network [Street Scenes, Heidelberg]

We are walking daily now. We are stepping out at the inter- section of Cape & Brown where a bristling fir tree is scrubbing tense from the sky. Presently I’ve never seen so many walkers, so many dogs on leashes …

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Final Hours, Sputnik 2

You travelled in a bullet until the heat spiked your blood and panic curdled lungs. Solid ground slipped into ocean, no waves only millions of pins and a small rubber ball suspended in the distance. You hurled yourself toward the …

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