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Joyce Parkes is published in Australia by, for instance, Meniscus - in the UK by PEN International, and in the US by the Broadkill Review.
Joyce Parkes
The Audacity
A smile has no accent, claims
a voice in a paper extended
to readers who also write
poetry – having Tiga Tender
that neither has a hug,
laughter, tears, a slap, nor
a handshake or a fist in
the country of black, white,
brown and yellow skins,
where accents dare to
speak of differences within
the sanctuary of sameness
and summon the audacity
to call for magnanimity.