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Poems
One Year
Catalogue: Life as Tableware
Fish Hooks
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Fish Hooks
Ivy Alvarez
door crack look
my mother's open mouth
the smell of ink
seaweed crush
between my toes
her side wound is a gill
weeping
for lost oxygen
and the time
before it got caught
From Food for Humans (Melbourne: Slow Joe Crow Press, 2002)
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