Claire Gaskin

b. 1966, Melbourne

Claire Gaskin has been writing and publishing her poetry extensively for twenty years. She currently teachers the Certificate Four in Professional Writing and Editing in Mansfield country Victoria. A Snail in the Ear of the Buddha was published by SOUP Publications in 1998. She completed a second collection of poetry in the receipt of a Literature Board grant for 2003. 

Crime

 

The stone of self worth
I thought I was spirit and didn't matter

A fall and a view both sides
on the ridge of wiped memory

The petals blink in the rain
like a child who cannot hold her hand out for the strap

Asking for naked photos back

You may as well enjoy it
Because of you I don't want to settle

His words crawled like snails out of his mouth into my pinned ear

I kiss the cold of seeing but not opening

Her body like a flag stuck in his skull
The rose of surgery 

 

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