PASSAGE
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In her second book of poetry, Bianca Bowers deconstructs and redefines her identity beyond the confines of domesticity while exploring her creative voice and searching for an unattainable sense of belonging as an Australian immigrant.
I watch the moon dwarf my bedroom window
and shelter inside a question mark
Bianca Bowers
Bianca Bowers is an immigrant, best-selling poetry author, novelist and award-winning poetry editor. She holds a BA in English and Film/TV/Media Studies and has authored several books through her imprints Paperfields Press and Auteur Books.She is known for her deeply personal writing style that seamlessly weaves cultural and literary references into work that is informed by life experience and inspired by love, relationships, personal evolution, and the human condition.Bianca's first poems were published in 1999, in the esteemed New Zealand poetry anthology, Tongue in your Ear. Since then, Bianca's poems have appeared in various print anthologies, online journals and a trailer for a short film.THE WINEMAKER'S WIFE is Bianca's second novel.
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PASSAGE - Bianca Bowers
For my grandmothers, biological and other:
Anne, Wilhelmina, and Freda.
Contents
Prelude
Restless ~ day
Seduce my restless heart
Mess
Plagiarist
A monster of authenticity
Brisbane breathes
Identity
Chamber
Trapped
Restless ~ night
Lotus in the Sahara
Los Angeles
In the End
I hunt the shadow
She leaves her soul in the stairwell
Friction ~ day
America
Immigrant
My face runs through the park
Fairytale
Conditioning
I see a woman's reflection—
Envy
As if love was ever enough
Resurrection or Burial
A dissected heart
Friction ~ night
Fickle
Flowers and Lies
I sail on the wind
I've fallen
Ghosts
I
Gargoyle Moon
Reflection ~ day
The Memory of Water
England, my England
A red helicopter
The Devil’s Courtyard
I sit between pines
Six Thousand Nautical Miles
September
Teenagers graffiti the trees
Complicate me
If I was a map
Reflection ~ night
Belonging
1920
Groundhog
I hid inside a piano
The ravens are everywhere
My heart collects dust
I want to swap my feet
Rain
Passage
Behind glass
I’m travelling to the clouds
Palace
I imagine that I’m a girl again
Seventeen
We’ll fly in pairs
A stranger to belonging
Let us touch the dawn
My ghost beckons me
Caterpillar
NOTES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Prelude
My feet were fused with a 7-lane highway
My spine, dismantled;
a map of bones with no instruction.
The pith of my existence, banished
to the crepuscule
while my hands waged war
left and right
I made