My copy has arrived! I wrote this poem especially for this issue of Rabbit. It follows my time spent in south-east Asia, including on Christmas Island, where I lived for three years, and thirteen months on Borneo. It is a bilingual prose poem and explores infertility, ageing, and the nuance of skin tone and politics from my perspective as an olive skinned white woman. I highly recommend subscribing to this journal.
Lisa Collyer is a poet and educator. She writes poetry with a focus on women’s bodies and how their experiences shape their everyday lives She is a Four Centres’ Emerging Writer, a writer-in-residence with The National Trust of W.A. (2021), an invited writer-in-residence for Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre (2022), and the winner of the Annette Cameron Encouragement Award (2021). Her work appears in Cordite, Rabbit, Westerly and Australian Poetry Anthology 21-22. She resides on the unceded lands of the Whadjuk Noongar Nation and pays her respects to elders past, present, and emerging.
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