The Book of Life
Kate Deller-Evans (Flinders University, Australia)
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laid out in a long line
five hundred volumes
in a font size for telephonists
not as complex as you’d think
— mostly junk —
cross-cultural call centres
crackling down twisted wires
but spot-on for all the hot bits
my scent as allure
curves getting more curvy
and my eyes (blue) batting,
flashing at you
replicating sins of my father
mistakes of my mother’s
and, likely,
of my children’s children to come
such intertwining fancy dance
a choreographied shotgun sequence
of special proteins all my own
I bequest hereafter
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In her Creative Writing PhD, Kate Deller-Evans is researching verse novels for children and young adults. Her article ‘Out of the Drought’ on Australian junior verse novels was published in Write4Children. She has begun her third verse novel manuscript, Scorned.
