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Kaya Ortiz

Kaya Ortiz is a queer Filipino poet of in/articulate identities and record-keeper of ancient histories. Kaya's writing has appeared in Westerly, Portside Review, Australian Poetry Journal and Best of Australian Poems 2021, among others. Their unpublished poetry collection Past & Parallel Lives won the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award, and is forthcoming from UWAP in 2025. Kaya lives on unceded Whadjuk Nyoongar country, where their name means ‘hello’ in the Nyoongar language.

Self-insert Trek: Flashback

0. Self-insert as narrator: [ i cannot look you in the eye / tell the story without telling it ] i am in flight again: [ ] is a name unspoken: i am creating a home without boxes: [ ] …

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Naming Ceremony

i am named for the rain / in the old tongue / i am named for the river / on my great-grandfather’s land / i was plucked from the soil / like a seed brown and sprouting / in the …

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Only Heaven

Hozier playing when we climbed into the backseat of my car parked by the oval on Gay St – your idea, we laughed and perhaps I am naive for not seeing it coming, for missing it, turning to shut the …

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