for Claudia
groove carved in your brow
you consider the motion
of your fingers -
splayed first,
then curling,
two at a time
to a loose fist
a moment earlier
your head jerked back,
face crumpled,
perplexed
by what you saw
an amateur scientist
you tried your theory -
actively observed
until satisfied
then your gaze lowered
to your feet
in case
your
toes
might
move
too.
About Tiggy Johnson
Tiggy Johnson began telling tales as a youngster when she told her mum her brother had hit her. With maturity, she developed skills to make stuff up that doesn’t necessarily come true. Her science degree and past life as an insurance loss adjuster did little to prepare her for her current work as a stay-at-home mother, writer and editor of literary magazine Page Seventeen. Her short story collection ‘Svetlana or Otherwise’ was released in 2008 and her poetry collection ‘First taste’ in 2010. Tiggy recently moved from Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges to the south of Brisbane with her husband, Bryden, and their children, Hamish, Claudia and Dylan.
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