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

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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.