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The Orchard

January 25, 2024
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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  be  deployed. 

IT   CAN   BE    anything   it   so   desires:    a  peach-fuzzed   dream   hanging 

 

ripe  on  the  buckling  bough  of  a  faraway   tree   in  that  golden   hour—

waiting  to  be  plucked         just  beyond  the  window  of  my  imagination.

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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.

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