Poem

'Imprints of Water' by Joan Fleming

by Joan Fleming •

November 2017, no. 396

Poem

'Imprints of Water' by Joan Fleming

by Joan Fleming •

November 2017, no. 396

The blue painted wall and the blue painted pipe
with its throat jagged out
is the first thing I photograph
because I like blue
and to my very shame
I have liked brokenness.

Joan Fleming

Joan Fleming is the author of the collections Failed Love Poems (2015) and The Same as Yes (2011) from Victoria University Press, and the chapbooks Two Dreams in Which Things Are Taken (Duets, 2010) and Some People’s Favourites (Desperate Literature, 2019). Her post-collapse verse novel Song of Less was released in 2021. She holds a PhD in ethnopoetics from Monash University, and lives in Bulleke Bek, Melbourne.