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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

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Christopher Palmer lives in Canberra, Australia. His first collection of poems, Afterlives, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2016.


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Nautilus

Later, he picks up the shell
feels its cryptic weight

saying he can hear the sky
the young voice of his sister.

He's curious to know its inner workings:
how the animal is able to withdraw completely

each unused year
a chamber filled with air

uncoiling to an open mouth.
He pulls it away, quickly

her unchambered heart
arriving in waves and waves.