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Ivy Alvarez


Ivy Alvarez

Poems


One Year

Catalogue: Life as Tableware

Fish Hooks


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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