Fiona Wright Biography

My sister doesn't shop at Bankstown any more
because the drivers are all crazy, or else they all
hold both a licence and a pension card.
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Silt, and minerals.
The brittling walls
now float on the waning water,
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The evenings have grown sharp now.
Light slinks through the blind slats,
the gaps beneath lintels.
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after Marjorie Barnard

At first cut
it collapses like a slashed tire.
This translucent flesh
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For Jane


To her, they never slithered -
rather a rustling, the stiff
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