Amazon warehouse
wilderness. Suburb
studies. Abandoned
set of futures. Alloyed
young love flight,
motherhood, half-men
built sanctuaries
under the castoff
light of timed
streetlamps, a cigarette
pulled out a crushed
pack on the foyer table
As the Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan in 2021, one woman – Australian academic and sports lawyer Dr Catherine Ordway – helped evacuate the country’s women’s cricket team.
Written for the marine algal crisis currently unfolding in the coastal waters of Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri Countries.
Australia is the only democracy without an enshrined Human Rights Act.