Bob Graham’s bottom drawer.
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Poignant reminder.
“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected” -Chief Seattle
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My grandaughter LOVES unicorns, so thanks, Aaron!
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Wonderful words.
Here’s issue 3 of the special volume of Review of Australian Fiction, edited by Laurie Steed, that features writers from Western Australia. This issue presents a story by one of Western Australia’s most celebrated novelists, Brenda Walker, paired with emerging writer Maria Papas—and two fascinating, and unsettling, stories they are.
Brenda Walker’s story, ‘Mouse’, begins with a singular voice that leads us into a small hell:
Inside the building next to the car park there is a flight of stairs that leads to the floor where the mice live. If you want to work with mice you must put on special clothing, heavy white plastic boots, gloves and a mask. You must walk through a sequence of doors, you must not carry bacteria from the outside world with you. This is to protect the mice from contamination. The mice live in translucent boxes. Their eyes are pink bubbles…
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Color-gist
black and white
colored exposures
torn to pieces
carefully measured
moulded
miniature portraits
fruit thrown
into a large ceramic bowl
it was blue then
I found a bucket
without holes
poured hot water
and glue
something to bind
some lemon rind
for freshness
rose oil for fragrance
newly delicate and soft
stirred the pot
a witch’s brew
deliberately changing
my past and future of you
snowflakes of my tears
softened over
three days/years
stewed quietly
to mush
crushed
until I no longer
recognised
pieces of wedding,
parties anything
dresses I wore
to make myself more
beautiful for you
a fleeting betrayal
of a heart filled
with love
with lies
happiness arrows – spies
your other women
who were my friends
thorns on the rose of my myth
Frances Macaulay Forde @ 2003
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No, I didn’t.
It’s likely you have not seen giraffes like this because you won’t often catch giraffes sleeping. (Aside from me! 🙂 ) giraffes have the shortest sleep requirements of any mammal, needing around 30 minutes a day. Until about the 1950’s researchers thought that they never slept at all.
Because of it’s slowness in lying down and getting up the giraffe as a prey animal has evolved to protect itself by reducing it’s need for catching zzzz’s. Beautiful, exotic and amazing huh?
Do we have any other ‘giraffes’ amongst us, or are you the full-bodied 8 hours type?
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I think you should e-book a chapbook called ‘Of course…’ .
of course,
the things we know are fleeting.
I’ve always understood that much.
and while inside I’ve held my breath,
I’ve never lacked the oxygen to connect.
“I’ve skirted worse”
I constantly assure myself-
I’ve lifted more from deeper lurches.
I know with every peach there is a pit
and in it,
lie our dormant curses.
– sc
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