Live Encounters Poetry & Writing February 2024.
Antidote for Lost Love, poem by Lorriane Gibson.
Antidote for Lost Love
Clearing out our house,
I sorted
through the tartan
biscuit tin
full of old
photographs.
I asked the ether,
Was I not enough?
At the markets, I scanned
a selection of fresh
biscuits—some
were honied and dark.
I took the type
I fancied home—licked
thick smooth chocolate
from the underside
of a new kind of biscuit.
It wasn’t long before
the tartan-tin
was replenished.
Thus satisfied,
I discovered life
offers many variations
of black and white.
© Lorraine Gibson
Lorraine Gibson is a Scottish Australian poet and writer living in regional Australia. In 2023 she was shortlisted for the Calanthe Press Poetry Prize. Since retiring from her work as a Cultural Anthropologist she has been drawn to writing poetry. Her poetry appears or is upcoming in: Meniscus, The Galway Review, Hecate, Eureka St, Prole, Live Encounters, Backstory, Brushstokes III, Poetry for The Planet, Booranga FourW, Book of Matches, Tarot, Last Stanza, and others. Lorraine has a PhD. in Anthropology from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her book, ‘We Don’t Do Dots: Aboriginal Art and Culture in Wilcannia, New South Wales’ is published in the UK by Sean Kingston Press.