Bio
Kathryn Reese writes poetry & flash. She lives on Peramangk land in Adelaide, South Australia. She works in medical microbiology and enjoys solo road trips, hiking and chasing frogs to record their calls for science. Her poems can be found in The Engine Idling, Epistemic Literary, Crowstep and Red Room Poetry.
Kathryn Reese
Aubade for a Fitzroy Apartment
This morning I have washed the sheets,
re-made the bed, wiped down the kitchen
and kissed each one of the houseplants.
There are gifts and post-it notes left for our host
and I am taking breakfast alone, watching
the streetlights through the window.
This morning the eucalypts turn and toss in the wind,
the wind crooning its way through the half-light
as if it, too, needs shelter. In a town full of windows
and mirrors, who's to say what's not real?
A stranger's house becomes a home I have loved,
and this is love, to leave softly.