days reel me in
I share my couch
with a dx7
& you once smiled:
uppercut deluxe
watch my eastern
neighbour’s psyche
scramble like lantana—
I cast out at dark
a wife cuts pink
& yellow flowers
when I come back
all this stuff will
be right where I left it
& you once smiled:
& yellow flowers
Holly Friedlander Liddicoat is a poet, editor and performer who has previously been published in Cordite, Overland, Rabbit, Seizure, Southerly and Voiceworks. She has edited poetry for Voiceworks and the UTS Writers’ Anthology, and was twice shortlisted for the UTS Writers’ Anthology Prize. Her first collection CRAVE is out with Rabbit in 2018.