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Michelle Dicinoski (University of Queensland, Australia)
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If anyone should ask, tell them mandarins.
Tell them eucalyptus sap that rubies on the bark.
Tell them snow crunch and grass burn
and skipping a hose-water rope.
If anyone should ask, tell them
bluebottles, cuttlefish, sea glass and
wild raspberries that charge
blood for fruit. Tell them
drunk on ten dollars and kissing the dawn.
If anyone should ask, tell them
nothing, tell them nothing and the world.
That’s what I’ve got to show for it.
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Michelle Dicinoski’s poems have appeared in The Best Australian Poems 2004, the Australian Literary Review, and the Australian. In 2008, she received an Australian Society of Authors mentorship to aid completion of her poetry collection, “Electricity for Beginners.” She is completing a PhD in creative writing (creative non-fiction) at the University of Queensland.
