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• Phalanx (Woman's Work)
  By Daniel Browning

  They talk of blak matriarchy
  I feel it every day
  The only blak matriarchs I know
  Would refuse that title

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• Be a Friend to Yourself
  By Courtney Peppernell

  Read this poem as text only here.
  

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• Cradle of Life
  By Archie Roach

  I go down to the ocean
  Here on the sand
  Ah my heart is broken 
  As here I stand

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• Ghazal for Staying Safe
  By Munira Tabassum Ahmed

  which is to say we prosper until we are not safe,
  all of this, worth it even when we are not safe.
   
  I ask where you are going, what roads bend aside

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• Where Love Blossomed
  By Sachém Parkin-Owens

  Concrete is where love has blossomed.
  The soil beneath my leaves devoid of life,
  full of misconception and missed connection.
  Full of self-reflections and misapprehensions.

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• Makes You Stronger
  By Nina Oyama

  A man once showed me around a sharehouse
  and whenever he showed me a bad part he said
  but hey, makes you stronger.
  So the sink pipes are rotten. But hey, makes you stronger.

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• Train Meditation
  By Robyn Lambird

  My favorite time of day is spent on the train.
  Meditation and contemplation, a grasp for meaning.
  No task at hand, the world blurs past in my peripherals and I consider how to turn the pain in my hips into a sensation worth having? More importantly, what to have for dinner?
  Surrounded by bodies, I dive deeper into myself.

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• Olympic Hour
  By Bronte Campbell

  The lotus flower
  Lurks in murk and mud and dark
  Biding time, keeping count
  ‘Til it bursts forth in light and bright and colour

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• Good Vibes Only!
  By Nat’s What I Reckon

  I see you in the bar window
  Shining so bright
   
  With a seeming list of demands

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