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'letting layers of the universe escape through one side
All his calculations lean to the right, toward
the door. You a swamp of desperation & charge'
[V24, Alicia Sometimes, Sneaking into an astronomy lecture]
'A silent and secret war began, unplanned and without strategy. Icy battles of refusal broke out in bedrooms throughout the town. It didn't work, of course; the colder the homes felt, the warmer the pub and the new barmaid seemed.'
[V24, Deb Wain, Morning stranger]
'It would not suit this voice for a meteor bombardment
to be an endless cosmic dance between exploding partners;
or for a black hole to be a simple doorway
or a smudge you might remove from your mirror;'
[ V15, Kevin Brophy, Deeply Speaking ]
'Now we picnic under the sun's bright glare
'au pays de la Somme' as road signs say;
poppies and roses fill the summer air.'
[ V12, Katherine Gallagher, Villanelle ]
'The baby birds looked old enough to have known something of the world -
light and darkness and hunger and perhaps nausea - but they had not
known flight.'
[V11, Tai McQueen, Pictures of Birds and Sky]
'White took a few puffs and leaned back. He looked at the white marbles
from a distance. From here, the shapes formed by the lines of colours
took on a life of their own.'
[ V09, Julie Constable, Chinese Chequers ]
'I sat at this same table once with
your sister, I told the kid
She put a hat pin through her cheek
while we waited to order'
[ V02, Chris Quigley, Famous People Mistakenly Believing They Were In
Melbourne ]