Untitled (Distant Voices)
By Kel Watson
Published 1 January 2021
across the span of hands
electricity
my palms press into yours
love leaps like a tattoo
your name
inked on my fingers
distant voices
In collaboration with Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) 2017, Brisbane City Council, and Gilimbaa, Red Room Poetry ran a poetry competition with the festival theme DISTANT VOICES. This was the winning poem.