collection
one night I step into your place clutching
the servants’ quarter / door’s leather tag / I glimpse
the cabinet / since history’s business is to crave more
keys
we / knock / on proprietor’s mouths
no. they’re not / his /
they belonged to
a European
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still. signs of Lamsey join every wall. cos
real houses don’t fit in cabinets? cos
we keep memories close?
and health, closer >
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Nadia Rhook is a white settler poet, historian, and educator, currently living in Boorloo/ Perth. She has a PhD in History from La Trobe University and is interested in decolonial ways of understanding the past-present. Her poetry appears in various journals and anthologies including Cordite Poetry Review, Peril, Australian Poetry Journal, Portside Review and What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing (Recent Work Press). Her first poetry collection is
Boots (UWA Publishing, 2020), and her second collection,
Second Fleet Baby, was released by Fremantle Press in 2022.