Issue 4

‘Beached Whale and Skyscraper’: Two Poems

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26 July 2016
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  • Poetry

    • Image by zeevveez

    BEACHED WHALE

     

    The black fender of a car;

     

    a thousand plastic bags that tried

     

    to become (new) lungs.

     

    SKYSCRAPER

     

    At night

    a thousand furious eyes.

     

    Blank in the day,

    revealing nothing.

    • Wes Lee is the author of Cowboy Genes (Grist Books 2014). Her poems have been published in Westerly, Cordite, Meniscus, Verandah, Underneath: The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s Poetry Prize Anthology 2015, Landfall, The London Magazine, Magma, Poetry London, and NOON. She has work forthcoming in Elbow Room, and HeadStuff.

    Issue 4-PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
    26 July 2016
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