Alice Allan
Waiting room
Alice Allan is a Melbourne-based poet with work published in Rabbit, Cordite and Southerly, among others.
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Waiting room
They have you
in a white bed
I am
where the magazines
are no one’s
coverless
across the blank car park a spire
waits with me
in the white sky
that holds up the planes
the white sky is stretching
around its birds
I am
with the magazines’
loud nothing
the spire turns
brown to black
birds settle
down from the orange sky
I am
folded.
Alice Allan is a Melbourne-based poet with work published in Rabbit, Cordite and Southerly, among others.