Fishing for Lightning by Sarah Holland-Batt

Author:Sarah Holland-Batt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Published: 2021-08-26T04:37:21+00:00

Door 1

Jennifer Harrison

i.m. Gillian ‘Jill’ Meagher (1982–2012)

the TV chats in a corner of the room

night a ceremony

offering up its movie aliens Ripley clawing her way

through a derelict spaceship

blasting the creature to bits as she swipes her gun

around the corners of space and fights for the child to

survive

Get away from her you bitch that’s what you want to say to

the night

now thick as a closed fist black rubbish streets

Brunswick alleys where girls should walk alone if they want

to

yet shouldn’t walk there at all not safely

in that kind of dark

daughter out there outside the spaceship

‘what am I supposed to do—stay indoors every night?’

she asks not blaming/not sure/

she will not be written out

buried at home alone in safe-roomed entombment

where murder resolves itself through incremental clues

like an episode of Waking the Dead

meanwhile the girls are walking home as they always

have

and will they weigh the feather and stone

in one hand then the other and find them equally light

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