Australian poetry

‘periodicity’

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I had never seen Bodyform feminine hygiene product ads until they were described to me – I didn’t think the song could be as bad as I was warned about. But they were worse. I include the ads here because… well, I don’t understand what the hell is going on with period product advertising and never have. Certainly nothing as direct as the poem below.

 

Periodicity (I)
–Lesbia Harford
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Periodicity (II)
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Periodicity (III)
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“sunward, my swallow”

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A Soul in Flight
–Lesbia Harford
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offspring

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Mothers and Daughters
–David Campbell
The cruel girls we loved
Are over forty.
Their subtle daughters
Have stolen their beauty;

And with a blue stare
Of cool surprise,
They mock their anxious mothers
With their mothers’ eyes.

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