My Grandmother’s Rifle Reading at the breakfast table, I turn to the book pages and there’s a complaint from a reviewer. Modern poetry is all about the small incidents from …
Let It Not Be This (Jen Chen)
Long Bay Hospital On the first visit to my client, not guilty by reason of mental illness, Long Bay Hospital extracted biometrics for their security system, digital fingerprints and snaps …
Isolation (Rose Lucas)
Isolation makes me nervous at the edge how will I be who will I be without you …
Clytemnestra (Justin Lowe)
those gleaming vessels of fate the well-lived the sanctified bestowed the luxury of a death off-stage a servant’s scream from the wings those parvenus who don’t carry …
(Motel Ghosts) Audrey Molloy
Motel Ghosts Ever wonder where they go? The souls of the extinct—not the bones of pipistrelles, finer than eyelashes, the rufous down of boobook owls or starry pelts of quolls, …
Mama Said (David Ishaya Osu)
Breakfast Table Mama serves us coffee at night. Not because she wants us to stay awake. Everyone brings a dream to the breakfast table. Face your food, you are still …
Sea Country (Sophie Finlay)
wax and wane deep in the trench ancient reefs lie submerged — their skeletons remember when the cryosphere stretched taut over continents these drowned cities gleam grey like marcasite — …
Bug pond (Carl Walsh)
Algae rusts the surface Daring us to become water treaders and step A water boatman sculls over the water — Charon ferrying dead souls Of needlebugs and backswimmers In absentia, …
As a First Resort, That Girl in the Snow (Rose Hunter)
Favourite wide, lowball glass Smirnoff with frosting, cold dear fur pour it in, pour it. Kiwi and guava, mix it in the colour of pale Pepto-Bismol, donut frosting and unicorns, …
The Reject Shop (Linda Godfrey)
The pills made you larger and that security guard at Westfield’s didn’t help, chasing you around, you thought it was the pills making you larger, you wanted to get to …