• 3rd December , 7th January

Perform at Sapphos Poetry Reading at 7pm -- TWO MINUTES PER POEM

• (GOALS FURTHER ALONG)

October NSW State Heats (Australian Poetry Slam) NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM

• Volunteer work at Word Travels

• Date: TBC

• contour/s
• scar
• skin
• wrist, wrist-bone (in The English Patient, it's described as a marble underneath the skin *dies*)
• spine
• flesh
• knuckles
• ankle
• earlobe
• crooks of arms
• the backs of knees
• pelvic bones
• veins, freckles, lungs
• fingernails
• napes of necks
• shoulders/shoulder blades
• collarbones (clavicles)
• rib-cage
• EYES (*__*) and eyelids

• musk
• naked
• lacuna (a blank space or a missing part; a missing section of text, an extended silence in a piece of music, etc.)
• opalescent
• stay
• touch
• nude
• ellipsis
• molt
• wisp
• and (Atwood's favourite word - "And. It is so hopeful.")
• and yet
• after all this time
• wait
• now
• almost
• somnambulist
• linger (*wink*)

• Mauve/a really naked, pinkish skin colour
• The gauzy diaphanous bluey-purplish-white of 5pm winters *u* (the way you described it was so beautiful hehe)
• The milky tinge of Iceland's blue lagoon - opaque and cloudy, a soft muted aqua
• Apricot orange
• Blue television light reflected on skin (re: Richard Siken's //I had a dream about you// & Joni Mitchell's //A Case of You//
• Luminous, marine-glow of an iris blue
• Aubergine (I just like the sound of this word hehe) - eggplant; a dark purple

• Gottfried Helnwein -- Macbeth, 1988

• Linger - The Cranberries (our song *w*)
• Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
• (They Long to Be) Close To You - The Carpenters
• Eternal Flame - The Bangles
• Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
• I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing - Aerosmith
• Weather By You - Crowded House
• Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
• Big Yellow Taxi - Counting Crows
• Hey Jude - The Beatles
• White Flag - Dido
• Yesterday Once More - The Carpenters
• Born To Try - Delta Goodrem
• Lovesong - Amiel
• Make You Feel My Love - Neil Young
• Imagine - John Lennon
• Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
• Blackbird - The Beatles
• Love is all around - The Troggs

• wine lip pencil
• tartan skirt
• long dangly earrings (jenny bird)
• floppy black hat
• black maxi
• black cropped sleeveless turtle neck
• black leather skirt
• white faux fur coat
• rings
• summer dresses
• white chiffon buttoned blouse

• lavender
• the yellow inside of a frangipani (which usually has a few lil bugs sleeping softly)
• fresh strawberries
• incense
• scented candles (once in an aisle of a dollar store, i breathed in a candle which smelt of rainforests)
• freshly-ground coffee beans
• the pages of old mildewed books
• dried mandarin peels
• lemon rind, lemon juice on the hands
• something (anything) baking in the oven
• cumin (sprinkle this spice atop a piece of toast with avocado and fried egg; then drizzle with lemon juice)
• the sweet yet acrid odour of sweat
• new carpet - sharp and wet
• v. smelt of something sweet - vanilla, yet not quite

• “There is an inner beauty about a woman who believes in herself, who knows she is capable of anything that she puts her mind to. There is a beauty in the strength and determination of a woman who follows her own path, who isnt thrown off by obstacles along the way. There is a beauty about a woman whose confidence comes from experiences; who knows she can fall, pick herself up, and move on.”

- Unknown

• “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go throug...

• WATCH A SUNRISE
• Make a scrapbook for OUR FUTURE clippings/prose/poetry (paste with pretty pictures and lovely postcards and things *w*)
• GO TO GLEBE MARKETS
• Swap favourite books
• Lie down on a road/field/beach at night together (OMG PRETTY MUCH LIE DOWN EVERYWHERE *__*)
• Sleepover!!!! (Bring scrabble, movies, lollies, fluffy pillows, BUBBLE BATH, COMFY PYJAMAS)
• Go to White Rabbit gallery!
• SPEND THE NIGHT IN THE CITY *hoots* m(o v o)m <-- owl
• Take sculpting classes with Jin
• Visit the aquarium
• dip our toes in the harbour afterwards *___*
• Bake something yummy/make pasta/MAKE FOOD IN GENERAL (07.11.13; pancakes and eggpl...

• Leura
• Canada
• Iceland (bathe in the Blue Lagoon)
• California’s San Joaquin Valley (Route 99)
• Norwegian Sea Islands in the Winter (Denmark)
• Watch northern lights at the town of Svovaer in the Lofoten Islands (Norway)
• Musée de L’orangerie (where monet's waterlillies are in a massive panorama *__* )
• Olive grove (wherever they may exist...)
• Verona, Juliet's House
• Fields and gardens in Hokkaido, Japan
• The Antelope Canyons
• Tunnel of Love, Ukraine
• Red beach, Panjin
• Bonn Street, Germany
• Japan, Wisteria flower tunnel
• Capilano suspension bridge in vancouver
• The Gardens at Marqueyssac, france

• Ben Quilty (figurative painter) [after afghanistan exhibition (2013)
• Jeff Wall (Photographer)
• Rothko (Abstract)
• Bill Viola (Video)
• Francis Bacon (Painter)
• Maya Bloch (Painter)
• Sally Mann (Photographer)
• Gustav Klimt (Austrian symbolist)
• Egon Schiele (figurative)
• LOUISE BOURGEOISE (installation/sculpture
• Kusama (crazy dot-lady from mental institute/obsessed with infinite)
• UGO RONDINONE 'What do you want? 2002' where a funhouse mirror warps all reflections of a self, while on a sound loop a lengthy quarrel enacts between a man and a woman: ‘What do you want?’, ‘What do I want?’, ‘Yes, what do you want?’, ‘I don’t want anything’…

• Yana-Rose
• Sheila
• Basil (for a pet omg ^w^ *writhes in cuteness*)
• Leigha/Leah
• Jin/June
• Alana/Elena
• Abigail
• Zoe
• Alyssa
• Lily
• Claire/Clare
• Lena
• Leah/Lia
• Luna
• April
• Aria
• Grace
• Margot
• Yoko
• Midori

• les cils (eyelashes)
• les yeux (eyes)
• les lèvres (lips)
• la langue (tongue - oh my goodness, doesn't it look similar to 'language'??? *faints*)
• la peau (skin - sounds so 'pearly' aaahhh)
• la poignet (wrist)
• les bras (arms...yes)
• les genoux (knees)
• le visage (face)
• la petite morte ('the little death' -idiom/euphemism for orgasm) More widely, it can refer to the spiritual release that comes with orgasm or to a short period of melancholy or transcendence as a result of the expenditure of the "life force," the feeling which is caused by the release of oxytocin in the brain after the occurrence of orgasm. Literary critic Roland Bar...

• ✔ In the Mind of Igor - Akram Kahn Dance Company at the Sydney Opera House on [31/08/13]
• Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

Duration: 2hrs 30mins (including interval) Times: Mon 6.30pm; Tues - Sat 7.30pm; Wed 1pm; Sat 1.30pm; 19, 20, 25 & 27 Nov 12.15 (Schools Day)

• Dido and Aeneas

Duration: 1hr 10mins; Times: 8pm on 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 Jan 2014

• When the Rain Stops Falling

• bleeding hearts
• moth orchids
• bluebells
• calla lily/stargazer lily
• bearded irises
• fields of dandelions
• frangipanis
• white carnations
• fields of sunflowers
• cottongrass (eriophorum)
• white pea flower
• brunnera 'jack frost'

• skeletal trees - the ones that explode with a thousand veins at each knuckle - seeds like alveoli - all against a bright, white sky
• the lava-like, pinkish outer glow of light wrapping around our fingers
• little, swirling milky ways in a bubble being blown
• half-closed shutters in the afternoon, prison bars of light on the floor

• sheer chiffon curtains/drapes that let the light in gently
• a dusty old attic with a large rounded/arch window to curl up against
• books: a room of books on tall bookshelves, a library with so much mahogany, the musky smell of old books, floor cushions to lie on and scrawl poems
• studio: for lily to make art - paintings, drawings, sculptures, anything
• an old couch
• turkish rugs
• wind chimes
• rooftop: for a little garden, for little dinner gatherings with loved ones, for dancing under the stars (or the lights that we'll string up)
• lots of mugs and different teas
• a small round wooden coffee table
• scented candles

"Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again (III.ii.130–138) Shakespeare , The Tempest

• the melancholy echo of a guitar sliding on reverb
• soft sighs of traffic
• the grainy sound of gravel
• blur/smudginess of buskers at night, the hum of restaurants, a laugh full of chimes
• the warm chuckle of someone you love
• slow inhales, deep exhales
• the page of novel being turned by a light finger

• anchor
• bird
• music
• moon
• dandelion
• moth
• "omfg we could even get the same thing or SOMETHING RELATED/CONNECTED?!?!?! LIKE TWO PARTS THAT MAKE A WHOLE??? IDEK OMG IM SO CHEESY :$"

• Ed Van Der Elsken - Love on the Left Bank ("Parisian life among bohemians subject to inertia, doubt and melancholy")
• Amy Friend - Dare Alla Luce
• Richard Mosse - Irish infrared photographer - post-war and post-catastrophe landscape, linguistics, loss and memory --> here and here
• Ren Hang (particularly evocative/explicit photographer)
• Daehyun Kim (graphics illustrator and designer)
• Jenny Holzer (American conceptual artist - billboard art; truisms)
• Nirrimi Firebrace (Photographer)
• TRACEY EMIN (confessional art - 'Exorcism of the last painting I ever made')
• Nan Goldin (Photographer)

• Noah
• Oliver
• Jude
• Benjamin
• Luca

• The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein (*n*)
• Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami *sob*
• The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (Jin's most-read book; I remember so clearly so many of the details - the smell of new carpet in the library; Clare's wet red-gold hair hanging over the back of the chair; Clare rubbing cream into her chapped hands; dancing on NYE to music nobody else could hear; meeting in the meadow, over and over, stay, stay, stay )

• ✔ Her
• Room in Rome
• ✔ Take this Waltz (holy fuck)
• ✔ American Beauty
• The Reader
• Tree of Life
• ✔ Revolutionary Road
• The Great Gatsby
• Wristcutters: A Love Story
• August Rush
• ✔ The Pianist
• Before Sunrise
• Eden
• The place beyond the pines
• ✔ Closer
• Hiroshima, Mon Amour
• ✔ Mona Lisa Smile
• Mr Nobody
• Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
• Windstruck
• Restless