The Horizontal Woman Peacock bright in spinnaker smock she looms, higher than on feet she can not use, a wider bed installed to stop her frequent heavy falls. Tiny helpless hands flutter at the fancy 3D cards she loves to make, another one of her escapes. “Visitors” are staff she’s set herself to know or volunteers, drawn in by what they find, pain put aside, the wit they hadn’t guessed. Serious at shopping, she keeps her orgies secret if drawers provide the space to hide excess: oranges, apples, grapes and berries, king chocolate blocks, fudge and cakes, cream…
Subscribe to get access to all online articles
Already a member?
Sign in to read this article
Digital Subscription
$98 / YR
Get the latest ideas from Australia’s most insightful writers.
- Digital Subscription includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
Printed & Digital Subscription
$118 / YR
For avid readers of leading ideas
from Australia’s brightest.
- Printed & Digital Subscription includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- Quadrant Patron includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- All new editions of Quadrant Books
- Exclusive invitations to Quadrant Dinners, book launches and events.
- Quadrant Patron includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- All new editions of Quadrant Books
- Exclusive invitations to Quadrant Dinners, book launches and events.