Southern Cross University Showcase

A showcase of SCU student work, compiled by Dr Emma Doolan

Rituals of a Titaness

Bronte-Maye Stanmore

First tentative, then with a small recklessness, into the water a wearied creature slips.

Clumsy limbs rise like Atlantean pillars from the depths And with each luxuriant breath Her lungs disperse the sea.

Waves of her own making course across this floral ocean, slapping against bergs of foam. The Giantess feels them sticking to her skin, crackling in her ears so that she dreams of the smack of Lilliputian sails; the whistle of their masts. Soon, she must return.

But for now, she can savour the quiet enormity of this ritual. This sea.

Bronte-Maye Stanmore is twenty years old and lives on the Mid North Coast, one of the most beautiful places. She is studying writing at SCU, but is not sure where she wants her life to lead.