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Tricia Dearborn is a Sydney poet, writer and editor. Her poetry and short stories have been published in literary journals in Australia and the US. Frankenstein's bathtub, her first collection of poetry, was published by Interactive Press in 2001.

from The Mathematics of the First Time

ii.  Fall through a Resisting Medium

I didn’t know I was falling—

to all appearances stationary

talking with you

on the bed for hours,

one hand loose in your corn-gold

heavy-silk hair.

By the time we discussed

the ways we’d been kissed

I was only just

too shy

to suggest I show you.

One night,

with your face close to mine in the dark,

the medium suddenly

thinned and clarified and

stopped resisting.

In that instant I realised

I’d fallen and

landed

on your wide hips soft belly warm

skin strong shoulders.

I landed hungry.