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S J Finn

S J Finn's poems have appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Snorkel, The Green Fuse, Rabbit and The Age. 'War Through the TV' was published in The Best Australian Poems 2010. 'Bylaw' was long-listed for the International University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Prize, and 'The Judgement' was highly commended in The Lord Mayor's Writing Awards. 'A Morning Shot' was long-listed in The Peter Porter Prize 2020.

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Proprioception

I’ve imagined the body confused. Outside your apartment building, feet on backwards, hands that don’t fit arms, all wobble, no electromagnetic cable available, antennae gummed and mental acuity last seen leaping the fence. There’s a peaceable backwards message. Like semaphore …

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High Straight Trunk

All morning she counts the beat of crickets until the grass makes a noise like scrunched paper. Ants take a turn over the hump of her foot. Heat curls the air away from trees and the call of a shrike …

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Shafted

It’s the long hair, untenably straight, and the swinging eye, like a moon losing orbit. There has always been trouble brewing – rising to a knot and then smoothing off like a yacht setting sail for a trip around the …

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Sweet Goodnights

From the taxi your head spills Followed by your stomach I wait, my eyes skirting Reading the watchful night Broth mist breathing, descending You pull up, groan, your wild eye happy enough Now that you're fixed to an address The …

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Motion

The paint has stuck on A swollen smile And then you smile Your teeth glow sticks in your ashen chimney mouth And you clearly say what you need Which is a shock as you smile again The fumes rolling across …

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