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Simpson dingo girl<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n safe inside your canvas dreaming<\/p>\n of the red track westward across the dunes<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the lean shape-shifter\u00a0\u00a0 with toes of a dancer<\/p>\n foxtrots the fringe \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0camp follower<\/p>\n nose to the north\u00a0\u00a0 she takes the shape of<\/p>\n a desert grass\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 spinifex dry<\/p>\n same pale yellow\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 same drift as the wind<\/p>\n <\/p>\n it\u2019s then you daub the ochre\u00a0\u00a0 the black<\/p>\n white for the star in the eye\u00a0\u00a0 insinuate<\/p>\n a dark shadow\u00a0\u00a0 minimal\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 abstract perhaps<\/p>\n <\/p>\n next morning the palette licked clean<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Julie Maclean <\/strong>was born in Bristol, UK and now lives in Victoria, Australia. In 2012 shortlisted for The Crashaw Prize, (Salt). Her debut collection of poetry, When I saw Jimi<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 is out now from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Poetry appears in US and leading Australian and UK journals including The Best Australian Poetry (UQP). She blogs at at\u00a0 juliemacleanwriter.com\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Simpson dingo girl <\/em>first appeared in Rabbit <\/em>(Aus) 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simpson dingo girl safe inside your canvas dreaming of the red track westward across the dunes the lean shape-shifter\u00a0\u00a0 with toes of a dancer foxtrots the fringe \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0camp follower nose to the north\u00a0\u00a0 she takes the shape of a desert grass\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 spinifex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4803,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions\/4803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}