You can’t tell if your family gave up

growing vegetables. Your Mum, gazing

over, wishes for peaches.

 

Our turmeric/sage/

parsley (the talking herb

we call it in our family

language) tastes like nothing. Night

 

-time, in the garden, you

observe minute

LEDs like Victorian-era street lamps,

 

an east-end of plant compost/

worm nutrients,

– a vast name-

less movement.

  • Josie/Jocelyn Deane is a writer and student at the University of Melbourne. Their work has appeared in Cordite, Southerly, Australian Poetry and Overland, among others. They were one of the recipients of the 2013 457 visa poetry/ shortlisted for the 2015 Marsden and Hachette prize for poetry. They live on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm.