her sunburnt

Jerome van Putten

She grew red

her face bursting with the Sun

her chest swelled

full of her uncontained heart

‘til she radiated warmth

and the Sun itself

shone a little less

for over exposure

Jerome van Putten is a poet living in Sydney, where he teaches English as a second language at UNSW. His childhood growing up travelling on a yacht contributed to an interest in communicating different perspectives in his writing.