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Alisha Erin Hillam

Sydney Harbour

I ask every instructor from the sailing club— immigrants, all of them— what brought them to Australia and in answer each of them throws their arms out toward the water around us like booms gybing wide, the harbor winds still filling their hearts like sails.

Alisha Erin Hillam is a Midwestern American writer, now residing abroad, whose work has appeared in publications such as Passages North, ONLY POEMS, Barrelhouse, Lunch Ticket and Consequence Forum.

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