Imagined Past / Reality Current

Lucy Norton

Image is a hand drawn illustration on a bright blue background. A person with brown cropped hair and brown skin is sitting on a grassy hill, leaning against a large tree. They are wearing a red jumper, blue jeans, and red shoes. A cloud is in the sky, and a hand reaches out from behind it, holding a red bottlebrush flower in a glass har. At the person's feet are three more glass jars with native flowers inside - the flowers are blue, yellow and red.

‘Imagined Past / Reality Current’ – Caitlin McGregor, 2023.

harvest

collect

reap

clutch

hold

scoop

summon

round up

muster

leaf

branch

tucker

bub

dog

lover

country

mob

kin

packet noodles

diagnoses

isolation

rebates

expectations unrealised

pillow

strength

courage

words, nope

gone mute

to let go i must also be
willing to gain

if my executive function
would allow it

Audio version of Imagined Past / Reality Current coming soon!

Lucy Norton is a proudly queer, neurodivergent, Koori & Quechua person currently living on Gadigal country. Their writing seeks to share their lived experience at various intersections, and personal reclamation through connecting with ancestry, land and spirit.