Johanna's BlogKelly-Lee Hickey
Kelly-lee Hickey is a poet, performer and community artist living in Alice Springs. Her writing exploring themes of whiteness, identity and location has been described in The Age as ‘stark and sparse’. Her poems have appeared in Going Down Swinging, Voiceworks Magazine and Rattapallax, and have been performed at the Adelaide Fringe, Emerging Writers Festival and WordStorm. She co-directed the National Young Writers Festival in 2006 and 2007, the Darwin Fringe in 2008, and is a member of the National Young Writers Festival board.
Nana died while I was tripping
She died alone in a wheelchair.
She was smoking herself to death.
In a world of few choices
She took one.
You had to respect her for that.
She never really liked my dizziness.
You could see still silent contempt
In her eyes.
As I tripped over my words
Lived adjectives and verbs
She had never recited in her life.
She lived slowly Dull demountable days.
Where the smell of death had moved in.
Her clothes didn't fit her
Her thoughts didn't match.
In the end she outgrew her skin
Kelly-Lee Hickey - Nana Died While I was Tripping
