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    Lightning Shades
    Lightning Shades
    Lightning Shades
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    Lightning Shades

    By Jessica Raschke

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    Lightning Shades traverses the mysteries of existence, from the ambiguities that lie within our inner lives, to the liminal spaces we occupy throughout life and death, sleeping and waking, growth and decay, and all the paradoxes that abound within those realms. Jessica Raschke's poetry holds us tenderly as it explores how we are haunted

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateFeb 19, 2021
    ISBN9781761090585
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      Book preview

      Lightning Shades - Jessica Raschke

      Lightning Shades

      Lightning Shades

      Jessica Raschke

      Ginninderra Press

      Lightning Shades

      ISBN 978 1 76109 058 5

      Copyright © text Jessica Raschke 2021

      Cover: Allison Colpoys

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2021 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      Contents

      Lightning Shades

      Acknowledgements

      Dedicated to my little Raschke-Pettigrew family

      Lightning Shades

      daydream drift

      In all of this sticky

      my eyes come to slow in a

      daydream drift of afternoon:

      the heat of the

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