Cassandra Atherton
Cassandra Atherton is an award-winning prose poet and international expert on prose poetry. She co-authored Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press) and co-edited the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press) with Paul Hetherington. She is currently writing a book of haibun with Jonathan Penton. Cassandra recommends Arthur's Acres Animal Sanctuary.
The triple threat of alcohol, Seconal and Dexedrine on your sheets. In a bowler hat, fishnet suspenders and a skin-tight tuxedo jacket I audition for the role of myself in the documentary of your life. It’s a glitter-and-doom aesthetic.
I think about parts of the heart sticking to the ribs, imagine the coroner scraping the bones like they’re frenched lamb cutlets. Time is syrupy in isolation. There are no weekdays and weekends, just time passing.
