By Geoffrey Aitken
it would be
very poor form
to believe
she would divert
blame
away from
the responsibility
of her
circumstance
here
in this tiny two-room
furnished with seconds
and appliances
unheated but summer hot
and while wall space
is restricted
it remains clean and clear
and onto which she visualizes
her memories
as if in a modest modern theatre.
Geoffrey Aitken writes in Adelaide, on unceded Kaurna land as an awarded industrial minimalist poet to partly communicate his ‘lived experience disability’ for publishers both locally [AUS] and internationally [UK, US, CAN, Fr & CN]. Flash Fiction at ‘The Meadowlark Review’ (US), and more recently, poetry at ‘Sparks of Calliope’ & ‘StepAway Magazine’ [UK], ‘The Closed Eye Open’, [US]; ‘Oxygen’ and ‘unusual work’ [AUS]. He was nominated for the annual Best of the Net anthology in 2022.
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