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Poem

In the Inner West

by Rhyll McMaster
March 2010, no. 319

we live with myriad trees
brush boxes engulf our balconies
October skins bursting pistachio green

beneath in bark litter
Chinese boys carry lattes
crack basketballs down the middle seam

 


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