Bluebottle

by Steph Amir

Blue ink exploded
onto unidentified viscera,
or perhaps it’s four
co-dependent animals
huddled in a grisly lump,
with a jellyfish wobble yet
not jellyfish at all.

Steph Amir’s poems have been published in Australian Poetry Journal, Foam:e, Plumwood Mountain, Rabbit, StylusLit, TEXT, and others.  In 2021, she was a Writer’s Victoria Writeability Fellow and in 2022 was shortlisted for the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Writing Awards for poetry.  She recently published her debut collection, “Pieces That Fit."