Gemma Parker

Gemma Parker is an award-winning poet, teacher, PhD candidate and student member of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. Her work has been published locally and internationally in Award Winning Australian Writing, Transnational Literature, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Mascara Literary Review and StylusLit. Gemma is one of the co-founders and managing editors of the new Adelaide literary journal, The Saltbush Review. She lives and works on Kaurna Country in Adelaide after many years abroad.

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Published in Overland Issue 247 Winter 2022 · Poetry

Poetry | Domestic

Gemma Parker

For a while I pick the glass Out of her hair, which is gorgeous—Ombre peach and gold. She holds my hand and won’t agree. I leave her in front of the tobacconist, Full of the language of murder.