We lean back, we ones
Too cool and aloof to actually cringe,
And hug the shadows we need to have fall
Across our frightened faces.
Beyond our world of coffee and singed
Bent matches and the grey-
Blue smoke of our Gitanes
There is no security.
My poems have appeared in The Girls Book of Success [both a child's poem, and a short essay re correspondance with the Late Sir John Betjeman about my poetry] (Little Brown), Flipside, On The Wing, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Seven Cups of Coffee, Macquarie University Arena (Australia), Focus, Saczine, 9 to 5, Motherload, HipMama Magazine, and Idunna.
I am the editor of the Arets Vakreste Boker 2004 award winning Norwegian-press literary collection UNDERTOW.