Lips that Did | Julie Maclean

Julie Maclean, from Bristol, UK, now lives on the Surf Coast, Australia. Her books include To Have To Follow (Indigo Dreams Publishing, UK, 2016), Kiss of the Viking (Poetry Salzburg, 2014) and When I saw Jimi, shortlisted for The Crashaw Prize (Salt) and joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Poetry Prize (Indigo Dreams, 2013). Her work appears in journals like POETRY (Chicago), BODY, The Best Australian Poetry, The Rialto and Shearsman. Blog: www.juliemacleanwriter.com     Art of Deconstruction Such a little room to keep my honeyeaters in walls held together by feather and spit If I feed them enough I will be reborn able to hold on But soon they feed all day I get bored sick stuck at the sink in my big house making meals that keep them keen I lose the will no longer care for feathered walls and bird spit sitting in my tree house freezer crammed with curry and rice so I slash the canvas with red bleeding down the sky They hate what I've done but I don't care because I'm now interested in