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Tyberius Larking

Tyberius Larking is a queer and Indigenous person who writes and studies on unceded Kaurna country. You can find their work published in Voiceworks, in Groundswell, in Right Now, on the Common Ground website and in Cordite Poetry Review.

Character Shift

I agreed to preserve your double life That requires At family dinners I check with you Before responding Homo-speak is a medical mystery The fluent suffer insidious onset suffer without suffering Your grandma’s brain has dropped lobes and therefore volume …

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Gender and Abject Horror: The Poetic Self

I recently woke to clothes and sheets drenched in blood. The sun, squeamish, kept its distance as I stripped off and showered. Outside, a glutinous rain fell disinfecting the streets; the bins begged and pleaded; have mercy on us. My periods have been heavy all my life though, until then, I hadn’t bled so profusely in years.

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Repatriate

This morning the moon and her hands were dry as sea-glass she held them firm over my mouth and it was a kind of muzzle in the kind of rain that knows your postcode that smells how the piano smells …

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