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Category: Fiction

Burns night: not just a poem…also a song

April 5, 2016August 19, 20194 Comments

My boozy poem is now a song, appearing on a stage in Sydney. Now that calls for a drink.

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Feeling flat: A poem for pancake day

February 9, 2016August 19, 201910 Comments

A poem where I wrote down everything I know about pancakes and realised that everything I know about pancakes is also everything I know about a flawed relationship.  Continue reading →

After the Fall: A poem

November 13, 2015August 19, 20192 Comments

A poem inspired by autumn and losers.

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Steam Cleaned Dreams: A poem inspired by the exciting recent purchase of a 2 in 1 steam cleaner.

September 18, 2015August 19, 20192 Comments

A poem that really is about buying a 2 in 1 steam cleaner

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Bubbles: A poem to lift my mood.

February 3, 2015August 19, 20194 Comments

It can’t be all bad, can it?

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Take No Nonesense from Little Miss Sunshine (a made-up story)

November 10, 2014August 20, 20198 Comments

Welcome to Parentingland.

We say, ‘welcome’, but when you look at the porridge on our chairs, our unkempt hair, and the manic look in our eyes, you might think we aren’t really welcoming you at all.

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An Open Letter to Carrot

June 19, 2014August 20, 201912 Comments

Dear Carrot.

(I have no idea why I wrote this)

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Blossoming

March 27, 2014August 20, 201913 Comments
A budding career
Swiftly, it blossoms: "But why?"
You eye my breasts. "Oh."

 

A story about what happened when me, Mary Poppins and Aristotle got together to discuss the obsession with being the ‘perfect parent’.

March 20, 2014August 20, 201934 Comments

That day when I forgot I’d invited Mary Poppins over for coffee.

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Burns Night: A Poem

January 25, 2014September 16, 20198 Comments

Cheers…

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We Were Going Out to Dinner: A Poem.

November 13, 2013September 16, 201936 Comments

Pants, wine and the postpartum posterior.

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Abby

writing, rhyming, listening, thinking, not cleaning.

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