Introducing Nicola Scholes...

    Photo credit: Elleni Toumpas

    Nicola Scholes is the author of Dear Rose (Small Change Press, 2009).  Nicola performed at Queensland Poetry Festival in 2009 and 2008, and her poems have been published in the journals The Broadkill Review (USA), CorditeForge (USA/UK), Hecate, Page Seventeen, Social Alternatives, Stylus, Verity La, and the books Hibiscus and Ti-Tree: Women in Queensland, and Poems in Perspex: Max Harris Poetry Award 2007.  Nicola regularly reads her poems at the Brisbane monthly poetry event SpeedPoets, and has been an actor in Brisbane community theatre for more than ten years.  Nicola has a BA with first-class honours in English from the University of Queensland, a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies from QUT, and an MA from Deakin University.  She is currently studying a PhD on representations of the maternal in Allen Ginsberg’s poetry at the University of Queensland.

    Stolen

    Cocooned in thin polar fleece
    taken from the airline,
    legs outstretched on miracle couch
    nectarine ankles going down


    A starfish plane crosses the sky
    it’s another world up there
    hardly Paradise
    a world where heads are bowed
    for the execution of sleep
    and dreams of running around
    scream like chickens
    where meals punctuate
    eight-hour sentences
    for a pack of salted peanuts
    don’t question the authority
    of those who feed us

    A world unto itself
    clouds held up with Viagra
    toilets in cupboards, pissing down towards earth
    relieved only by the sight of
    brightly-coloured dorsal fins
    sharks drifting toward terminals


    Wiggling toes in soft thin socks
    stretching sympathy one minute
    recoiling the next
    I emerge grateful
    for carpet a couch
    a two-bedroom unit in Brisbane


                                                                                  by Nicola Scholes 

                                                                                  published in page seventeen #8 (2010)


    Catch Nicola at the Queensland Poetry Festival in Among the last bright leaves - Sunday 28 August / Shopfront Space / 5.00pm

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