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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Dumbstruck
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,:Five Islands Press , 1996 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Perthi"your summer fractures", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 9)
Immigrationi"father we arrived decades too soon", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 10)
Pink Wateri"the girl & the neighbour sit", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 11-12)
Control Burni"who are you anyway?", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Schoolyear, 1967, Marcella Polain , sequence poetry (p. 13-16)
Tinderboxi"she is born in the year of the dog", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 14-15)
Waterwheeli"summer rains fall fat with promise", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 15-16)
In Memory of My Fatheri"january sixty six is pouring sun &", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 17)
The Day Beforei"the day before he died he washed the car", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 18)
These Things I Remember from Fifteen :i"sex with some boy who tells me (after)", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 19)
She Stirs the Soup and Singsi"curled & pale she swam the amnios like moses", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 20-21)
Reunioni"i know i arrived without notice", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 22)
Missing Personsi"Pushing metal flat to metal", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 23)
Genesisi"my womb is thicklined ripe", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 25)
Firstborni"they hand me", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 25)
Theology (A Salvation Story), Marcella Polain , sequence poetry (p. 25-26)
Ascensioni"sun carves its arc", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 26)
Mirrori"conceived you in a looking glass", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 27)
Kaleidoscopei"child you remake yourself at each encounter", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 27)
Scissorsi"your surgeon's eye maps borders", Marcella Polain , single work poetry (p. 27)
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