Julie Manning is a late-career poet. Her work has previously been published in Australian Book Review, Cordite, and the Grieve Anthology (Hunter Writers Centre), and it is forthcoming in Overland. She was longlisted for the University of Canberra Vice Chancellors International Poetry Prize in 2019 and selected at the Queensland Poetry Festival as an Emerging Poet for 2019. She lives on Moreton Bay in Queensland.
1.Your beard intrigues me, its rough mystery, patterned complexity.I imagine burrowing animals under your skin that raise
unreadable braille, tiny things my nails disturb – anemone frondsin a sea-borne forest. I could analyse what I know
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