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    by Kristen Tytler

    Poetry

When we weren’t cooped up indoors, the most gratifying thing
about those fights were the ends. Once we’d exhausted

our grievances or grown bored by what they implied
about us, we’d go out for a cheap meal on High Street.

I’d order egg on rice that came mixed with fragments of shell,
and you, noodles. There we’d spend, instead of bitterness

and resentment, our hard-won resolve to not worry
about whether the lid of the toothpaste was put back

properly or if it were my turn that week
to take out the bins and yours to do the dishes.

These things, after all, could once be left till morning. But now
that we are floating, locked behind a fragile set of expressions

that barely hold together, we no longer spill our yolk over
the floor and scramble with adulterated joy toward the climax.

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August 2nd, 2020 / Poetry

Kristen Tytler



 

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  • Badenoch Street — by Jessica Kilkenny
  • Eel — by Hinemoana Baker, GDS #29
  • Morbo — Words and reading by Jean Velasco.
  • Two Hands — Spoken word by Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa, with animation by Maeve Baker.
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  • Inertness — A poem by Grace Chan and illustration by James Martin
  • Memorandum — by Belinda Rule
  • Dirge — a poem by Eileen Chong
  • walls — by Laila Nawsheen
  • the great outdoors — by Elese Dowden
  • DYSTOPIAN NOVEL WITH ME AS THE CENTRAL CHARACTER — by Freya Daly Sadgrove & Marc Pearson
  • [in the pebbled rut] — by Christine Hamm
  • Late and Soon — Poetry by Jennifer Compton
  • The Wedding — by Georgia Rose Phillips
  • Alien — by Joshua Badge
  • worms — by Eric Jiang
  • Hallucinations with fruits — by Ella Skilbeck-Porter
  • i am the ellipsis waving — by Eric Jiang
  • one litre of blood — Words by Terri Ann Quan Sing & animation by Maeve Baker
  • something more than nutrients — Interactive digital poetry from Anita Solak
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