Rozanna Lilley



Taxidermy

In the Museum’s enfolding hush the Superb Lyrebird stretches splayed toes on wooden platform to rake leaflitter tawny tailfeathers Posterity preserved glassy eyes peering past Burke’s inscribed revolver through double doors to forest deep listening as an axe strikes blackwood …

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Malby’s Terrestrial Globe

Dr Moussé utters a satisfied sigh as Malby’s terrestrial globe is unpacked from straw-stuffed crate three feet in diameter all points of the compass converging at Beechworth Mrs Goodman commands her girls to file past in reverential pairs you need …

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Playthings

Mother read the catalogue’s cornucopian promise: ‘The Best of Toys for Girls and Boys’ The dollshouse came wrapped in sledding snowmen (fat legs akimbo) its painted pinecone shrubs, a topiarist’s dry dream My brother got a belt and holster to …

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