CONTRIBUTORS

Jane Downing

Jane Downing's poetry has appeared in journals around Australia and overseas including Meanjin, Rabbit, Canberra Times, Not Very Quiet, Social Alternatives, Bluepepper, Catchment, Otoliths, Live Encounters, e.ratio, Last Stanza, Best Australian Poems (2004 & 2015), and previously in Cordite. Her collection, When Figs Fly (Close-Up Books) was published in 2019.

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Car Wash Reiki

When all hope is lost can I recommend a ten dollar self-care session (who can afford more than that in this day + age) The therapy of cleanliness next to goodliness already has a lot to say for itself so …

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Criminal Thoughts

In which I realise I will not make an attractive corpse In which I carry a broken watch so they’ll know the time of my demise In which I half burn a letter in the grate In which I leave …

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City Birds

And the crow was the big black bin bag and the big black bin bag was the crow and their blackness shimmered taking the light to purple And their struggle separated them, bird and bag a bridge formed only by …

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