her sunburnt
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.