Treading Water
By Caroline Reid
On average there are 2.59 people in an Australian household. On average there are eight peas in a pod. Some days I’m the biggest pea. On average I shame myself more than I love myself.
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The latest poetry, fiction, essays, art and reviews from Verity La.
- Treading Water (Caroline Reid)I On average there are 2.59 people in an Australian household. On average there are eight peas in a pod. ...
- /PRAYER.BIN: Fragmented Liturgies for the Digital Soul (Brentley Frazer)1_The Simulacrum of Thunder I. The Burial [Magnetic Ghost-Scripts] Magnetic tape unspools_ a blackened vein ...
- The Intellectual Dark Web (Jamie Q Roberts)The Postmodern Approach to Truth With the rise of Postmodernism, the veneration of truth, reasoning and evidence came to be ...
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- A ROOM OF MIRRORS: Hazel Hall reviews Lizz Murphy’s ‘the wear of my face’Edited by Robyn Cadwallader Lizz Murphy is a micro poet ― at her best when forging images from a few ...
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