Issue Three – October 2015
MAYHEM
ISSN 2382-0322
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Brittany Rose
Parachutes and Daisies
A black-haired girl and her blond brother
under the hand-built table.
Beneath S P A C E D L E T T E R S
a voided love note
a red Crayola heart.
Net curtains
white,
dance with flecks
of dust, and skin.
Billow, drift, waft
in the yellow air.
Wooden sills and
golden latches.
I walk down the hallway,
past the room
where my sister sleeps
with the bassinet and
rose pinstripe paper.
I walk past the Roman blind,
with the braided cord
handcrafted by my mother.
I walk to the big room where
my brother is busy.
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He ties knots.
Sweaters
in knots.
Ribbons
in knots.
Trousers
in knots.
Knotted doorknobs,
locked in knots.
Yellow earmuffs & plastic parachutes.
The little girl and her blond brother,
leap
from the double doors,
to the prickle patch.
In hand-me-down shoes, my sister slips.
Her teeth
split
her bottom lip.
The chainsaw rips
the hedged edge,
and shreds
kowhai confetti.
The scarlet
sun
sets
into the lake.
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colour spills, and
eats
Ruapehu’s pencil edge.
Now
the house is smeared
with primary yellow paint.
A fucking kayak on the wall
in the room where I
pirouette around my sister.
I click through the photos and see my brother
collide with timber, decked,
when he jumps from the double doors
with plastic bags
looped
around his shoulders.
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