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36 Weeks

He’s settling and resettling
like the cat who circles
and collapses again.
You feel the hollowing,
agitating and loosening,
the flurry of housekeeping
under the Medusa vein spread
of your skin. See the wild
proliferation of your blood there,
coursing over the surface,
inflating his veins
with an ultra-filtrate of you.
He moves now and you know
not to be fooled
by the lapping sensation –
he’s descending
down hard in the pelvis
head-first, knocking
bone against bone, like clicks
and scatters, or dice in a jar,
locking like a lattice of antlers.
 
Poetry
Johanna Aitchison
Michele Amas
Angela Andrews  
Sarah Barnett
David Beach
Ken Bolton
Jenny Bornholdt
Rachel Bush
Mary Cresswell
Stephanie De Montalk
Cliff Fell
Tom Fitzsimons
Brian Flaherty
David Geary
Bernadette Hall
Kerry Hines
Andrew Johnston
Therese Lloyd
Iggy McGovern
Mary Macpherson
Dora Malech
Vana Manasiadis
Emma Neale
Gregory O'Brien
Lucy Orbell
Zach Savich
Charlotte Simmonds
Marty Smith
Elizabeth Smither
Abby Stewart
Robert Sullivan
Jo Thorpe
Cath Vidler
Louise Wallace
Ashleigh Young

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