Author name: Harriet McKnight

HARRIET MCKNIGHT is a writer from Melbourne. She is also the Deputy Editor of The Canary Press.

HARRIET MCKNIGHT #4: Plan B

I make you buy it, say it’s a small town, that people know me here

At Christmas lunch I tell my mother I’ve decided to come home for a little while

I think about how our breath is mixing with the breath of everyone around us all the time

Her hands danced to their own tune and she couldn’t trust them to hold a hot pan