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Love as a Folded Newspaper

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Hologram

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Supernova I wrote this today, I think I'll work on it - but here's a draft.

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La Petite Mort

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Mermaid

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When I think about you

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Inscription

So I finished that poem…

  https://jessicadendy.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/voice-002.m4a

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3am in Kmart - A Reading.

Audio Poem. 3am in Kmart. One for the over-talkers and the mystics.

https://jessicadendy.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/3am-in-kmart.m4a

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Thoughts in Summer/Winter

Summer girl/winter man

Thoughts in Summer/Winter

I’ve borrowed a smirk from Tracy Emin. Older now, the summer flowers don’t melt my heart as they did at 27. If you were here I would do things differently.

But don’t we all say that? He crumples my touch, throws it to the corner next to the bin where a condom hangs like a man lynched

even at 7am in Wollongong the heat is a thief’s hand to the mouth. It is summer here,…

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Letter to an Iraqi Physicist

Letter to an Iraqi Physicist

  O Gentleman

not quite a gentleman but in your own mind

buoyant, a DIY high-brow daydream in designer

collared shirt and loafers, taxied everywhere

by a sense of importance, oyster with a pearl

of impatient wildness, too good to be bohemian

too rich to be bourgeois

  O Gentleman

I feel you will not die but dissolve like salt

only to crystallise somewhere else,…

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Ouija Board

How do you summon the dead?

Ouija Board

  Australian autumn gum trees don’t lose their colour

perhaps they knew you or saw your stubbornness

about letting go and will hold in all that green like a breath

I don’t know, I’ve never asked them or you but sat

in awe at your refusal to cave in to cancer chipping

away at you like a sphinx nose, turning yellow in your last days

as your liver struggled to keep up with your…

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Collecting Beads

Spoken word: Collecting beads. I guess I'm one of those girls.

Collecting Beads

for M. Nin https://jessicadendy.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/collecting-beads.m4a

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Ryan or Brian or Sean or Cheyne

We've all met this dude.

Spring rain and JB on beige chinos. Leggy millennials squawk in the disco lit windows. I am young in face and old in dissatisfaction. My amaretto sour served without egg whites, too much orange rind is always a problem. I suck the cherry and try and tie the stem with my tongue – I was never that kind of woman. Waiting for my lover in the corner under the heater and birdcaged bare bulbs, the bar…

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One is not born a woman One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

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The Big Parts

Beekeeping kinda love.

The Big Parts

  We sleep like beekeeping

the smoke of your breaths

hushes the sting of my darkness

soothing hums

you don’t avert your eyes

at my rolls of flesh

bold as a traffic accident

I am small in myself

but you find the big parts

taffy-stretch them out

until my laughter opens like

buck-toothed dahlias.

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Leslie's Books and Antiques

Is it a sex shop inside a bookstore? Or a book store inside a sex shop?

Leslie’s Books and Antiques

The Pleasures of the Damned, 1993 was a good year – putting me on like Chapstick. The bookstore doubles as a sex shop –

Leslie’s Books and Antiques – the only ‘antique’ is a stuffed cobra fighting a mongoose sitting in dust on the counter while a floral curtain

the kind you’d find in a 1950’s farmhouse, too orange, too pink, is the only thing that separates the Best of…

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Love is Endless Oil - A Reading.

Love is Endless Oil – A Reading.

https://jessicadendy.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/love-is-endless-oil.m4a

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