Published in Overland Issue 252 Spring 2023 · Poetry Stitch Emma Simington Night rains chafing through flyscreens, the dog gymnastic with love and all the things I said on the way to bed about helicopter doctors. Emma Simington Emma Simington is a poet living on unceded Yugambeh country. Her words can be found between the pages of The Moth Magazine and Australian Poetry. She has shortlisted for the Helen Ann Bell Poetry Bequest Award and the Thomas Shapcott Prize. Emma loves women, coffee and lemon pepper tuna. It is proud to be neurodivergent and transgender. More by Emma Simington › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 27 September 2024 · Poetry Because a wind blazes Dženana Vucic Because after autumn there are / other autumns, / we learn to eat the wind. / This is what we shall do / with all our anger. 6 September 20246 September 2024 · Poetry Debts of the robots Corey Wakeling Repaying the debts of robots, / I see me in your screen fatally, which is / to say oozed certainty across a whistle of craft.
