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Absolutely Revolting
Prize Shortlist

The Inaugural ABR Poetry Prize

The Shortlist
by Jennifer Harrison, Stephen Edgar, Mark Tredinnick, Maria Takolander, Sandra Hill and Kevin Gillam •
March 2005, no. 269

Ventriloquist’s Dummy
by Jennifer Harrison

 

I

          I can’t tell where I’m going
but shall I memorise the shape of streets
          the slope of bridges, the vertigo?
today I’m carried somewhere new –
I’m lost, in pieces, and I rattle

          the smell of camphor
(my skull, cedar from Cameroon) –
          I remember silt in my mouth
eyes dredged from a factory
when a light wind blew, my hair moved

 


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