Blood and Bone | Carlie Daley Nekrasov

Carlie Daley Nekrasov started with words and poetry at age 5. She lives with her family in the hills above Melbourne in Australia where she steals time to stitch together poems. She has had pieces published in The Long Paddock, Southerly, Gargouille, Capsule, Frostwriting and various Australian anthologies. Carlie's poetry explores the intersections between identity, religion, and rural dislocation.      HopeVices crush right through acrylic bones, gasoline tongues, rib cages, dusty moth wingsstitched hope into sinew by golden thread night is when we quietly count our abacus of private ruinswe rattle limbs stitched with hope along junkyard pathsheaded nowhere, keep company with t/horny foolscradled and cursed under starry canopiesblooming like vespertine flowerswhen caressed in velvety darknessweeping at dawn; a wilted, discarded rootfollowed the star of Bethlehem into the voidhid behind the heavy weave of stage curtainsto avoid center stage.only when light creeps from horizonscan we m