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Blood Sport (Penelope Layland)

Ruin porn Walls skinned by spalling, scalloped as vertebrae with a twist. Gyprock musty as summer sheets— 3am, again at 6. Shadows attach to ambiguous shapes through windows with no …

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    • The Journal
    • An editorial-shaped box
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    • Fiction
      • Lies to Live By
      • Being Sure
    • Interviews
      • Lighthouse Yarns
    • Non Fiction
      • Rogue State
      • Verity La Forum
    • Poetry
      • Heightened Talk
      • Spoken Word
    • Reviews
      • Through the Looking Glass
    • Projects
      • Black Cockatoo
      • Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project
      • Discoursing Diaspora
      • Disrupt
      • Out of Limbo
  • Poetry Podcast
  • Submissions
    • Guide
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