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Prithvi Varatharajan

Prithvi Varatharajan has published poetry, criticism, essays, and scholarship; he has also produced literary radio programs for ABC Radio National and community radio. His collection of poems and prose, Entries, was published in 2020 by Cordite Books. He lives in Melbourne. He was the first contributor to the HEAT series Write the Day in 2026.

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Write the Day: What’s up, pumpkin?

Two rocks clink onto the far side of the balcony. I once thought children were throwing these rocks off the building’s rooftop, secretly hoping to disturb someone they couldn’t see, far below them. But I’ve decided that the rocks blow off the higher, set-back balconies and then onto ours. For months I’ve been stacking them in a small teacup, thinking I’ll ride the elevator up and return them to their original garden beds – if I can work out which they are.

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