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20. I remember when I heard the news softly, soft O footstep of my grief a coiling cat around my legs, you choose to be silent or underfoot. The brief ...

19. Somewhere in a field are all the names left behind, buried in jars with rings, watches, silver picture frames, the memory of a little girl who sings at night ...

18. Obligatory self aware sonnet alluding to its own construction Anachronistic Aphaeresis 'pon it. Forced rhyme by misapproximation. Anaphora! Hyperbole Afflatus! Anaphora! Mild Amphigouri! Anaphora!

17. I am yours because of the autumn frost. That is not to say I could have done without you, I'd be lost. Without the frost I would have been ...

16. PenguinAttack Your poetry is so full of spices the heat that sets aflame your every cell organic: you don't notice the poetic devices even while you are consumed by ...

15. Rough Hair (requested) Six inches to the year, so waist to shoulder was Don, 2001, rent overdue. Brute to all her friends, they never told her. Jed, shoulder to ...

14. Your heart, an orchid: with the tender accord of new shoots tasting sun but arched to shiver, the fragility that great loves afford And yet, my love, no bitter ...

13. Jamiton Jamiton, oh furry little warlord well versed in land grabs and chemical warfare. His territory expands ever forward taken with claw, farting, vomit or hair. With a snort, ...

12. Mermaids (for Pigeon) It wasn't a promise, it was just a song, not for anyone in this particular ocean Neither did she instigate the long calm of waves which ...

That last one was requested by my exhousemate, who I love. Pig is giving me Mermaids, which I am attempting. Also Maisi is my exlecturer's cat, who is currently very ...

11. Inappropriate Language The use of profanity releases endorphins into your system, and in turn the agony which caused your outburst ceases (for example, a bite, a cut or burn). ...

10. Sister, Sister. She told me life is complicated A symphony, many parts in a score. So many sins go unexpatiated with the cloaking of simpering metaphor. Did you fight ...

9. Lest we forget the Vet I used to march in the ANZAC day parade. I'd always end up eating the rosemary praying for the sacrifice they made, are making ...

8. For Maisi With the sparrows she could catch, surely eighty or ninety would do, she will fly! Net the wriggling stars like fish. (Naturally the sparrows must have a ...

I should mention that "Force water into your cells! Become more delicious!" is literally what my housemate said while cooking pasta. Which is one of the infinite reasons I love ...