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"My mama is my feeding bottle... She never goes empty no matter how deep I sip! Thank you mum!"

"Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter."
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"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."

"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."

"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."

"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."
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