words to avoid
By Em König
Published 26 July 2021
red earth red dust expanse nostalgia horizon empty haunted transportable thriving peacock breathless gone pipeline donga silence panic corpses refugee graveyard rocket childhood volcanic marsupial saltbush gone ruin corrugated rubble primary school oasis reunion internal remote erasure bombs gone missile certainty pawprints cockatoo cages kitchen catholic gone hospital demolition nothing vast dry crystal shitpond cemetery isolation gone detention facility steep time passing ages nowhere central stolen anger exodus gone multiple blood observatory stoned better stuck blister removed rubble gone settle stucco sleepy crust weatherboard quill open quartz slope almost gone