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Everything we're made of by Tricia Dearborn

[Above] Photo of Tricia Dearborn by Tricia Dearborn, 2003.

Tricia Dearborn

Everything we're made of

comes from earth; we cry, returning
borrowed salt; we give our bone and muscle

back to the earth to suck, as ash,
as rotting flesh; that calcium atom in your skull -

star-fired, congealed to rock, dissolved
by rain, passed on to you, breathing blood

in your mother's womb -
will settle in another's bone some day

when your atoms range over mountains, rock
in the current of distant oceans

no matter how steadfast, stock-still this life
one day you will travel the world

Published in Frankenstein's bathtub (Interactive Press, 2001).

About the Poet Tricia Dearborn

Tricia Dearborn is a Sydney poet, writer and editor. She was born in 1963 in Glen Innes, NSW and moved to Bathurst with her family when she was two. She later moved to Sydney to go to Uni (graduating with an Honours degree in Biochemistry and a Master of Arts) and now lives in Sydney's inner west. Tricia wrote the first poem she can remember when she was seven, and at 11 started a journal she keeps to this day. Since that first poem she has written more poetry, short stories, essays, articles, a children's story about a heroic slug, a biochemistry thesis, and educational books for children and teachers. She was a founding member of the Sydney writers' group outWriters (1994-2000). In 1998, she was selected as one of the 'mentees' for the inaugural Varuna Residential Mentorship for Poetry, with Deb Westbury as mentor. Her first collection of poetry, Frankenstein's bathtub, was published in 2001 by Interactive Press.
   [Above] Photo of Tricia Dearborn by Tricia Dearborn, 2003.

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