I have flown a wide open ocean where waves break and boil like crested terns in a rookery I have flown a sweeping plain where grasses sway on the breeze …
2016 Election Day Stars! (Rachael Nielsen)
The cold is upon us and so is the election. If you’re not out badgering everyone you know as well as the odd stranger to vote Greens you will be …
On the Freeway (Yuan Changming)
Driving through a forest I saw a deer Standing alone still Like what I wish to watch: Every human is so busy Passing by Changming Yuan, a nine-time Pushcart …
HIS MANY MOUTHS (Angela Gardner)
Monkey king stretches his four hands out to the sun love and desire his radiant avenue. Nothing goes through this fire :the huge expanse, cramping his hands for the monsters. Above, …
Black Wire (Kushal Poddar)
Black wire swirls the blade of the sun on blue. Isolation is sweaty. Isolation is hot. Smell of frying fish permeates the sphere. Sphere is small. Sphere is caged in …
Mr Noonan to you (J Kane)
You were nine years old you when you woke to find the dentist kissing your penis. Only he would know the extent of the activities that went on while you …
Elevation (Ode to Frisco) (Emily Brugman)
In the Tenderloin A man with bloodied foot Yelled that middle class women Outside Amoeba Your mum — visiting for three weeks Stepped on a human shit And it was entertaining …
The Rattler (Daniel Young)
Billy passed back the joint, his mouth hot and dry, his brain expanding but feeling too many things at once, wanting more and more and more, but with a queasy …
A RENDERING OF GENES (Ramon Loyola)
My hair is not black but dark brown It has streaks of white and old strands A rendering of unfortunate genes and Of old age and memories and regret The …
The Bougainvillea Tree (Laura McPhee-Browne)
for Marjorie Barnard I saw two summers in one year once and I won’t forget it. Only once. I had started to heal by then, and often thought of no …