By Lili Bird
A town west
off the highway
hot and staled
with a name like
sticky breakfast cereal
I hang from the window
of my 2 star motel
and swallow
throat-fulls of thunder
on the air
and watch the rain
clouds billow
like blue hounds hunting
meat off the mountains.
Lili Bird is a writer and visual artist from the Blue Mountains, Australia. Having spent a long time in the wilds of Canada, Iceland, Scotland, and her own rugged bushland home, Lili draws inspiration from her love of travel, road trips, and remote wilderness exploration. Central to her work are themes of duality, vulnerability, beauty, fear, and love, encapsulating her experiences as a young woman. Her writing has been published in Woman Cave Collective, and she recently had her first solo art show in Sydney.
