Mia Kelly

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I was marching with the Right to Grow Movement of the 2060s—swishing a homemade flag, everything wet from the thaw. We were scattering seeds from stolen pouches. We expected a police blockade. Failing to encounter trouble, we were more unnerved than emboldened.

Instated in this gallery, Norrel’s photograph makes the highway worth admiring. Fresh asphalt, granular and shining. A gelatin silver sky. It’s a century before our seeds and graffiti, and a flock of blossoms have alighted on the branches of a tree. Razor wire gathers on a wall.

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Mia Kelly is an emerging writer working from Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia. She has been published in Westerly and Pulch.