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2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award winner and Commended in the 2024 Anne Elder Award, Svetlana's debut collection If Movement Was a Language is available now through Vagabond Press.
I almost made this
another poem about swimming
but words aren’t always poems.
this exists everywhere:
cars parked in wait
this exists everywhere: sleep
housing drivers-to-be
desire for the domestic
away\towards
cusp
away\towards
the sunken couch. I always thought
it could devour us whole, my cousin and me,
the dark blue depths the same colour
as the night sky, speckled with white bits of lint.
If movement were a language: triptych
no one would be as fluent as us / swimmers. gliding through what we know as air, density augmented.
Hyades Magazine
In Launceston
the rocks on the beach change shape
beneath our very feet. Not all thoughts
are true, my [ ] once told me.
does it count
if i heard childhood
in the lowing of the cows
in voices that kept the wrong secrets
luncheon parties are invariably memorable for something very witty that was said / had i the fiction / i would have said precisely the same thing / but i had no fiction / consider the facts : the dinner was not
good ; could we not have dined up here alone ?
