Prize Shortlist
The Inaugural ABR Poetry Prize
The Shortlist
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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