Girl Friend
by Jaimie Lee
When did you notice the words can be pushed apart
like couches rearranged on an unspent Saturday?
Wife would have been a stronghold. There is no beat
inside wi and fe for a battering of lashes.
But you can come up for breath between girl
and friend. It would not be grammatically correct
to pretend otherwise.
About the Author
Jaimie Lee is a Sydney-based writer and PhD student. Her poems and fiction have appeared in The Rising Phoenix Review, Ghost City Review, and the UNSWeetened Literary Journal. If she could, she would spend all her time writing in sunlit kitchens surrounded by black cats.
