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Double Cleanse

Phoebe Gilmore

God is wearing a Lululemon two piece telling me it is vital I double cleanse so I wash my body twice – once out side then inside – this is not what god meant To worship this way is to swallow a sundried elephant feet first I want to be a benevolent celery stick not…
A Perfect Day (Itinerary)
Ghibli Movies For Me

Rina Sakurai

How do you feel when you watch Ghibli movies? Is it the beautiful animation, the sense of youth or perhaps the romantic scenes? I grew up watching Ghibli movies, naturally, as I was born and raised in Japan. When it becomes summer, TV programs often feature Ghibli movies and my family watches them while eating…
why do people, do, this?

Tegan Smith

why do people? i collect shells and pebbles from beaches. not to take them away in masses. not to keep them forever. i take a favourite in my pocket. i hold it and smooth its ridges with my fingertips. like a human erosion when i’m anxious. one day i will return the pebble to a…
Cocktails and KBBQ

Zak Greed

Time runs out quickly, as we run through the sand of our hourglass, Figure it all out before we lay deeply, with another. No greener over here, turns out. The blur of each day soothing us, no time to gift ourselves the present, feel our breath and fingers, The heart we wear still needs to…
Curated Selfhood: A Brief Pinterest Ethnography

Daisy Greetham

Pinterest is arguably the most individualised of social media platforms, and thus it has become the most idealist too. In its content and its function, it is the epitomic tool for modern idealisation; a curation of your hopes and dreams. I was first introduced to Pinterest in a high school art class when I was…
The Rectangle Representative

Marziah Dickson

Transparent polygon portal into the outside other, in- fra-world. What can slip through gene- ral perception of a void b- alancing on an object. Such brief encounters with the rectangle offer us solitude when rain descends. When the sun ascends and clouds disperse do we venture past the four connecting lines and mesh with the…
A Guide to Living

Erivn Chio

Leave the blinds open at night. Let love enter like March in the year. Let the sun greet you good morning; your name woke in its warmth. Take a shower. Let water fall like April showers. Let the soap cleanse winter away; left behind like a bad charm. Have breakfast. Let it hug your tongue…
Desire Knows No Limits

Alaa El Souri

Desire knows no limits It knows not when to stop Nor can it take a hint For it is an entity within itself. They capitalised on her beauty ‘Enhance it’ they said Because perhaps if her lips were shinier or her skin lost it’s texture, Then she’s ‘pretty’ They capitalised on her beauty…
Tricking Soothing Slippery Slope

Oli Mardon

1. Trickery is a soothing tool. Soothing aching tooth aches, cavities and chalky voids. 2. Daily life is laden with rotting pores, gaping and wide. These pores are life’s hiccups of all miscellanies. Suddenly looming, gigantic, thorned vines, they sprout like weeds from what once seemed insignificant seeds. Hardly identifiable to the eye, painless,…
Charming My Soul

Jai Rajwardi

Bending over in front of the mirror, How do I look in this position? With my flabs of skin loosened on my inner thigh, And tits which no longer point up to the sky. One day it’s sexy, one day it’s not, How do I feel in this position? Blood rushes fast towards my head,…
Echoes

India Whitmarsh-Lewis

I found, in the first instance, that my time online was time well spent. A blurry selfie by a thirteen-year-old child in a blue and yellow blouse came into the world. The world at that stage being nothing more than my own family and a handful of similarly aged friends. This was good: I realised…