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Eliza Victoria

Sapantaha

Eliza Victoria, Australian Multilingual Writing Project, June 2020

I am trying to write kindness back into the world

Or at least the kind of kindness that is not astonishing,

that does not cut skin with its brightness. A dullness.

I am trying to write dullness back into the world.

(Note on access: there is an audio recording of this poem)

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