Monday, June 12, 2017


Almost Human

At night there's the limbering
the extended stretch

Off to bed at ten
to her side, which is
your side surrendered

In the middle of the night
an unexpected weight
aligns the warmth of pillow

A cat will enter your silence
be silent, until a nasal breath
enters your ear

A partnership co-exists
each one knowing some little thing
about the other

A cat knows how to fill a void
when to comfort, yawn or stretch
to be
almost human.


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Helen Hagemann holds an MA in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has three poetry books: Evangelyne & Other Poems published by Australian Poetry, Melbourne (2009) and of Arc & Shadow published by Sunline Press, Perth (2013). Bounty: prose poetry is published by Oz.one Publishing in 2024. She has three novels published The Last Asbestos Town (2020), The Ozone Café (2021) and The Five Lives of Ms Bennett a result of her Masters degree at ECU (2006), is published by Oz.one Publishing (2023).

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