Some poetry

My poem ‘Sad Girl Day’ was published in 2021 by FemAsiaMagazine, and written in direct reaction to the Melbourne lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. I had two young children locked in with me, and I was working as an arts journalist reporting on the impacts of the lockdowns on the industry. Every day I woke up feeling so helpless, and that life was something to endure.

I ended up experiencing some major life hurdles, which in turn eroded my mental health. I thought, maybe I needed to stop writing all together. Maybe the writing was part of the problem. So I quit writing in 2023. Memory and time felt translucent. I was writing, I was just hiding it from myself. I don’t even remember writing this poem, titled ‘Poems: poem’ found in my notes app.

So back here, back to now. And it seems I can’t let writing go. So writing with intention it is.