Fiona Wright
We Took Their Zombies

1 April 2010

I was flying over Sydney in a giant zombie.
(it's fun to take zombies
& stay up all night)
Sydney zombies
are white and angry-tongued, but
I am still
the black zombie of trespass on alien waters.
Things looked bad.

Your zombie calls, and you answer it: your
lank zombie, dank zombie,
chafe in its crotch and sores in its hair.
(it's important to be zombie
but not to be
 too cute about it.) Together
we eat
bread & stewed zombie –
It's surprisingly easy to cook a zombie now.
I can iron shirts too.

My zombie lives in a house where nobody has ever died.
To the wind it says, ‘They have eaten me alive.’

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Fiona Wright

About Fiona Wright


Fiona Wright is a poet from Sydney. She works as an Editor at Giramondo Publishing and HEAT.



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2 Responses to We Took Their Zombies

  1. Ashley Capes says:

    Cool, Fiona! Love the Dransfield nod too – like so many of these, this one made me chuckle.

    Gwen Harding at the end?

  2. michaelf says:

    oh – i just read this poem which made my previous comment on harwood superfluous .. fiona got there already

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