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Paris Rosemont

Paris Rosemont is an Asian-Australian poet whose work has been published in Verge Literary Journal, Red Room Poetry’s ‘Admissions’ and Heroines Anthology (vol.4.). In 2022, Paris was a Living Stories Competition judge, WestWords Academian, Frontier Poetry scholarship recipient, awarded an Arts Access Australia mentorship, WestWords-Varuna Emerging Writers’ Residency and was named runner up for the Writing NSW x Varuna Fellowship 2022.

White Tiger of the West

I am no common-law wife no common lawless thingI am his Choiseul—the one he seeks on starry nightsalabaster pearl Aphrodite shucked from her shellemerging glistening with a wild surmiseSo luminous O- rion promptly dropshis belt
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Here, Kitty Kitty

Oh, belle coquette with your noirishallure—Catwoman slinking backinto your boudoir whiskers whet,aftertaste of cream still velveton your tongue. Oh, Pussy-cat, Pussycat, where have you been?To whom did your heart belongthis April night under a swollenmoon sous le pont? Did you lovehim enough
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Kill the Wabbits 

Three little kits appeared one morning in the back corner of Hop’s hutch, writhing sightless as moles in the straw, pink as the little piggies on my baby brother’s smooth, un-walked-on feet, hairless as a Brazilian sauntering barefoot along the breezy Copacabana.
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Girl #3 in the Canteen

My mother—in her heyday—had been quitea looker. Pretty enough to have been a Bond girl, framedin a sniper’s scope, I mused to myself. As a teen, thumbing through plastic sleeved albums (eight curved-edge photographs to a double page spread, fizzing lightly with
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The Orchard

MY WRITERS’ BLOCK does not exist (or so I’ve been told); its name is the very  pulse of this story, yearning to be unleashed from the confines of my churning  chest — a  writhing  tangle  of  Medusa’s  serpents  itching  to 
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Shotgun Smoke

She has been living one foot in the Pacific Ocean, the other dipping a curious toe in the Andaman Sea. Who is she? Wild flower flourishing in the hothouse till she grows tall as a poppy queuing for the guillotine. Still,
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