laser show

I want to be someone that creates a bonfire out of your darkness and dances with you around it until we conjure up spirits like a laser show, only for you to realise you were the light all along. […]

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dirt and wood

The way that I learnt masculinity was first through using wood: trips to Bunnings in the red four runner, choosing long slabs of timber, building bookshelves and beds in the garage.  And then it was dirt: digging holes to mend pipes, jeans covered in mud, dad getting angry when I didn’t realise I’d be getting […]

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know me

know me just know me the mortifying ordeal of being known I’ll let you love me got a soul as raw as her father trauma as gnarled as tree roots my bones are yours to deconstruct my flesh to destroy I’m yours to destroy destruction is a kind of  creation or, re-creation tender […]

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Depraved things

For once in my life I don’t want to do depraved things I don’t want to look into your eyes as you spit in my mouth I don’t want to hurt to split apart I want to be soft and leave you soft […]

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Shoes as a mode of transportation

I forgot to read The Alchemist when everybody told me to so I pretended I had. And I forgot to watch The Matrix for three school years in a row (and maybe that was an intentional resistance to authority) but even so, for three years I wrote essays about red and blue pills. And then […]

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1, 3, 2

One year and Three hair colours between Two photos. Has it been a lifetime? Or just a moment? My soul is tired. My heart hurts more often than it doesn’t. Every time I survive the worst waves and start treading water and start catching my breath and start believing land might be somewhere on the […]

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