My poem ‘Release’ was selected for publication in One Page Brisbane, Volume 2: Issue 1, Heat and Waves 2015.

 

Release

That afternoon in the Brisbane heat

she jumped fully clothed

from the timber bridge

straight into water —

 

Splashed in the current and let

the cool seep into her bones

drag her down briefly —

 

Let the water

release her from its muddy

lungs back into the land

of the living.

 

First published in One Page Brisbane, Volume 2: Issue 1, Heat and Waves, 2015