the knitting lies curved
along its cable
it rests on the pattern
which covers my journal
in which is secreted
my dream of two nights ago
the one where I called our father
a cunt, a complete cunt
then walked out of the house
past the bedroom we shared
from the day they brought you home
in a bassinette
will you feel it
can my dream, through layers
of paper and card, through wool
and plastic and steel
through the ether, via satellite
find you, transmit to you
what you’ve forbidden me to speak of
Tricia Dearborn’s poetry has been widely published in literary journals including Meanjin, Southerly, Island Magazine and Westerly, and in anthologies including Contemporary Australian Poetry, Australian Poetry since 1788, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets and The Best Australian Poems 2012 and 2010. She is on the editorial board of Plumwood Mountain, an online journal of ecopoetry and ecopoetics, and was guest poetry editor for the February 2016 issue. She has been awarded several grants by the Australia Council, and a 2017 Residential Fellowship at Varuna, the Writers’ House, to work on her manuscript in progress. Her latest collection is The Ringing World (Puncher & Wattmann, 2012).