fear and other feelings

By | 1 May 2019
                         the 
                                     wasp will 
                                                         just 
                                                      not fucking 
                                                                              give up

floats along our old back wall like a drone patrolling we have cut off her access with duct tape a mud house inside she brings caterpillars to feed her young grasping wriggling I think to myself what if I held my head to the boards would I hear them writhing they will die I watch a news report of a dam collapsing all mud and death I do not want to mourn my family ever it has been three soft striped days she will not give up I am sorry

 


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Claire Albrecht is a Newcastle-based poet. She was the 2019 Emerging Writers Festival fellow at the State Library of Victoria, a 2020 Varuna ‘Writing Fire, Writing Drought’ fellow, and will be a resident at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico in 2021. Her debut chapbook 'pinky swear' was published in 2018, and she runs Cuplet Poetry Night.

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