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 …
The Hunger (Ian McBryde)
Orchid Queen of corollas, borne up on the deep green roll of foliage. Your hunger is showing. One last tremble has opened your shoulders, bold as a whore. You are …
Poems from Year of the Wasp (Joel Deane)
Paramedics arrive. Give him a shot of Stemetil as he thinks of holding a match burning down to the pinch, of a …
Schlafwagen und Wunderkammer* (Richard James Allen)
(*German for ‘sleeper’ or ‘sleeping car’ and ‘cabinet of curiosities’ or ‘wonder room’) you are on the night train to Vienna and you have already arrived in Berlin you are …
Discoursing Diaspora
It’s International Diversity Day and at Verity La we’re taking this opportunity to announce our Discoursing Diaspora writing and arts project. International Diversity Day (also known as World Day for Cultural Diversity, Dialogue …