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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.

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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