Michèle Nardelli

Joined February 2021

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Beach
It’s a blue and bright deception alive with calmness. People on the end of lines hang over the jetty waiting for a catch.
By Michèle Nardelli18 days ago in Poets
Escalation
The tanks crunch over the line in the sand past open fields, little houses and dirt roads, and dogs and cats and ageing babus with mismatched hats,
By Michèle Nardelli30 days ago in Poets
Birthday
I watched the meat grinder, as little curls toppled into bowls, waiting to be dressed with salt and pepper, then deftly primped and patted
By Michèle Nardelli6 months ago in Poets
Submerged
Sometimes it’s hard to define, even for someone with an excellent sense of smell. To pull out the different elements in a blast of scent that is all at once familiar and somehow terrifying.
By Michèle Nardelli7 months ago in Fiction
Casual
Passion spent on ragged sheets. The heat, of an afternoon in an anonymous room void of softness or love. Touching the skin, you have never
By Michèle Nardelli8 months ago in Poets
High Tide
High tide You come to me now, like the ghost of feelings past, when I’d abandoned all thoughts of love and lust. Packed them up into a yesterday box and buried it in the garden.
By Michèle Nardelli8 months ago in Poets
Sundown, Sunset Crescent
We closed the door today on our place. Our 60s dream house, ranch style, for a family with mod cons and little quirks - arguments and a laundry chute.
By Michèle Nardelli8 months ago in Poets
Poppy’s Post Pandemic Inclusion Anxiety
It’s 4.30 am…again. I don’t know what it is about the now, but I seem not to be able to sleep for longer than a few hours at a time.
By Michèle Nardelli9 months ago in Petlife
A wicked tale of how the girls escaped the land of Bad Hairy Scary Men
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a beautiful country full of deserts and rivers and wild, wild mountains and villages and cities and families and all kinds of people just going about their business.
By Michèle Nardelli9 months ago in Fiction
No sex please, I am playing scrabble
We’ve been sold a pup! The wonderful world of social media offers so many extraordinary opportunities to connect with other humans, a godsend in these times of no travel, work from home and social lockdown. But there is a dark side.
By Michèle Nardelli9 months ago in Gamers
Hometown
Flattened streets and yellowed curbs in dry heat that only you possess, that bakes your skin before it sweats, I feel the endless drift of years, spent here.
By Michèle Nardelli9 months ago in Poets
Domestic
Some families are sedate and harmonious and others are more discordant. We were a passionately argumentative lot. Looking back it would be easy to focus on the quarrels - but underneath it all, something I understood less as a child than I do now, there was an abiding love underlining all the squalls in our family voyages.
By Michèle Nardelli9 months ago in Poets