View from an Escalator

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Why are there stones in our bed, fellow?/Do you need them to weight your dreams?/Why are there bones beneath our mattress?/ Why do the ancestors rattle, rattle and clack? Why is there a necklace of eyes in your fist/ the one my daughter made for Father’s Day?

Apart from being an accomplished writer of flash fiction, Liesl is also an editor and literary journalist. In this, her first collection of poetry, she incorporate all her many pursuits and experiences as her eye complements a sharp awareness of the other four senses and illuminates experiences of dislocation and the knowledge that just beneath the ‘everyday’ is the madness that haunts many human lives.