Jim Thomas



A signal sometimes reaches

Jim Thomas is a writer living in Naarm. His work has appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Meanjin and Voiceworks. He was shortlisted for the Deakin University Nonfiction Prize in 2019.

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Light variations at the bomb museum

I heard the footsteps again, you know who it was. The fish tank inhabited by a strange artwork. There was nobody home to explain, we waited. I remember tampering with the core and the first stage of fission, a hollow …

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On the committee of vultures

The feeling on the island was that a god had come here to die. We met lesser angels wandering drunk through the hills, accusing passers-by of paying tax to many-tongued deserts, beasts muscled in shadow and serpents who chase their …

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