Denise has a background in commercial book publishing, manages Black Quill Press, and is Poetry Editor for Australia/New Zealand for The Blue Nib. Her poetry is published widely and has received numerous awards. Her debut poetry collection The Beating Heart will be published by Ginninderra Press in August 2020.
In the kitchen I stand Tracksuit-clad and blinking As the click of the front door shuts The sounds of the day away. I snuff the gas And the subterranean gurgling fades to naught As, like a latter-day suburban witch
I admit it, I don’t even like them just bought them on a whim but as my hand closes around each creamy sliced-off stalk end with its cool clasp of overlapping leaves the same pallid green as the porcelain