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Panda Wong

Panda Wong is a poet and editor living in Naarm. She is also one-half of the music/poetry project lotus threads, as well as its expanded project lotus web. Her chapbook angel wings dumpster fire was published by Puncher & Wattman in 2022, followed shortly by her debut poetry EP, salmon cannon me into the abyss. She also co-edited Best of Australian Poems 2023 and is a 2026 The Next Chapter fellow.

oh saint rita

make me a slobbering instrument of yr peace. I want to write abt the light glittering in the eternal blood rosette on yr forehead. the daily e-mortification of the flesh. some wounds can be scrolled into forever & ever &… …

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DIVINE INTERVENTIONS

During breeding season, Melbourne is home to up to 10,000 seraphim, the highest form of angel. However, these sacred creatures can be a hazard to aircraft. Angel strike in one of these engines can cause severe damage to the fan blades & cause the engine to fail. Engine manufacturers test the safety of these engines by firing a high-speed frozen chicken at them while the engine is operating at full thrust.

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Panda Wong Reviews Autumn Royal and Barbara Temperton

Like reverse-engineering a sausage, articulating grief is an impossible task. Autumn Royal’s debut poetry collection The Drama Student (2023) resists this urge for clarity. Instead, she writes towards grief’s inability to be expressed or written, how language scrapes against grief’s edges, a continuation of her practice’s focus on elegy and mourning traditions.

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free meat on a suburban street

Special thanks to Vale, the mentioned friend oscillating from disassociation to despair i try to write a poem & i can’t so i read abt vultures puking & shitting on an NYC couple’s luxury condo in florida & how one …

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