New Poetry by Valli Poole

Danae

Talking to herself, the air

a bag lady wears a moth eaten hat.

Funeral – clothes – threadbare, smell of

something spoiled, forgotten, a

rotting corvus bird.

She will tell you,

if you let her,

how once she was a pole dancer

and she will dance for you

gyrating to an imaginary pole.

Skirts lift, her hand

strokes her crotch.

The fetid air gathers around

her as if throwing

contemptuous copper coins.

- Valli Poole 2016

valli poole is an Australian poet. Her work has been published in Australia and Internationally. valli runs a small press in australia called blank Rune Press. Her books include A Box of Hummingbirds (2013), Aeons (2013), Bog Boys & Unquiet Graves and Folie A Quatre: An anthology of Love Poems (2016).valli is currently working on a suite of poems for publication.