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Natalie Bühler

Natalie Bühler is an emerging poet, editor and arts administrator living and working on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Melbourne. Her native Swiss German, which does not have a standardised written form, frequently features in her poetry. She is the Program Administrator for Red Room Poetry, one of the founding editors of The Marrow poetry journal, and is currently studying a Master of Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Melbourne. Her work has appeared in Cordite, Tint, Blue Bottle Journal, boats against the current, swim press and the Tinted Trails anthology.

I’ve been losing myself at the pool lately

and each time the intercom warbles an unfamiliar name as I search the pool floor, follow lines that end in crosses and dive into holes between tiles, live my entire life in the other pool, ʎllɐuᴉɟ I lᴉʇun ‘ǝpᴉs ɹǝɥʇo …

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Speech patterns

When I open my mouth, I speak mountains, crags tearing at the corners of my lips. Each sentence wraps, like twilight fog, around Mount Rigi missing her lakes, wondering when we started making history out of anything but granite. The …

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