Jennifer Harrison
Motherlode: Australian Women’s Poetry 1986 – 2008 by Jennifer Harrison and Kate Waterhouse
by Lyn McCredden •
The Inaugural ABR Poetry Prize
Ventriloquist’s Dummy
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
I’ve been trying to place love
in the exhibit for inspection
but there are fees to be perfected.