Abstract
Working from Home Petra White (bio) In the soft realm of home,where you move like a shoal of fish—flabby, moonlit,eyes tilting to the night,streetlights, and people shouldering themselves home—emails fly straight in through the windowlike mad birds, breaking the glass.Colleagues crowd the room like smoke,the room filled with human things, the broken bookcase,silver cat warming her haunches on the radiator,daughter's Lego pieces on the floor.Who looks at these things but those who live here!Work—that galloping horsewe ride bareback, clinging to its mane with reddening hands—it settles on the breakfast table,almost apologetic, but grinninglike a child who knows she will getfull attention, well beyondthe sun's little stretch. [End Page 138] Petra White Petra White is an Australian poet living in Berlin. She has published four books of poems, most recently Reading for a Quiet Morning (Gloria SMH, 2017), and was joint winner of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 2010. Copyright © 2021 Wayne State University Press
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