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CLAIRE MIRANDA ROBERTS

White Jasmine


If I stay long enough
                         I may become
everything around me: many
pinks
in the dusk
        white jasmine     appearing
like brooches       on the timber

the fragrance
            on the air stopping



Pact


I thought I knew         my past
then I returned

              and I was not
cleared                           of this place

a pact with the     aerial
ferns that bud
                                        with scarlet

from their coarse                   bark—

               whatever comes next
bears to                        witness



Claire Miranda Roberts is an Australian poet from Melbourne. Her recent work has appeared in Sentinel Literary Quarterly and Blue Bottle Journal and is forthcoming in Plumwood Mountain.