Amy Devine

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It is 6am in the city and we are sharing
a wet morning walk and it is still dark and
you are still a wrinkle in my nose on the worst days.
I hold up old clothes and cannot fathom them
being new again. I was so sure that she would die
and I cannot imagine seeing you live, seeing you sleep
in the space between the present and the windowsill.

We could only find five fingers at the last ultrasound.
I imagine the others curled into a fist around my lowest rib.

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Amy Devine is an artist from a lineage of artists, based in Sydney, Australia. Her work has been featured in several publications including The Antigonish Review, flashglass and Beyond the Veil Press. She is a Best of the Net nominee and her first book, ‘Speaking of Bees’, was published by Harvard Square Press in 2025.

‘Starting Over’ was Highly Commended in the Briefly Write Poetry Prize 2025.