This poem was published in Pop Up Zine 2024 (online), NEW Writers’ Group inc., a Western Sydney publication.
As a hopeless (and hapless) INFJ romantic, I embraced the challenge of writing a Valentine’s Day poem for my writer’s group’s open mic competition. This departure from my memoir comfort zone earlier this year became the harbinger for a biblical-scale flood of creative fertility, informing a long form autobiographical project. Expect darker subject matter, with love, laughter and music at its core. Watch this space.
Daily symphony
Secret musical companion, let’s converse.
Fill my abstract gap, my autobiographical urge.
Laughter, sigh, question, answer: a bass and treble harmony
With gentle jocular repartee
We transcend the changing of light bulbs
The routine restocking of sustenance
The mundane stream of ‘friendly reminders’ in our inboxes.
The doorbell rings.
Another Amazon delivery
Disrupts the disruptive while I’m
Scrawling ‘Apples’ then ‘Bananas’ on a shopping list.
Danielle Catherine 