Perimenopause as a chance to get a few things off my mother’s chest my mother and I are not alike in temperament or constitution though at twelve she told me …
Do you come here often? (Melinda Smith)
Sydney, you flirt, you sandstone blonde with your wide blue eyes, your fringes of come-hither frangipani, your swizzle-stick palms, your blinding white mast-thickets bristling in the little bays. Perched on …
24-hour prayer cycle (Penny O’Hara)
For the commuters facing long delays and for the woman raped, allegedly, whose breasts were checked for DNA and for the one year old whose brain was rattled like a …
Ridley Scott’s Alien with Moth (Benjamin Dodds)
Ridley Scott’s Alien with Moth ride …
Whorls: Three poems by Ariel Riveros Pavez
Shellform spiralling to the infinity of a hermit living inside you home for aqueome little thumbling by shore pod for crustacean exemplary exploration and I take you to my ear …
The Sleepwalker (Justin Lowe)
on the tacit understanding that you will not repeat this to anyone, Artemis walked with me for a while, in the early days when the fire still burned. dust and …
Extracts From a Liar’s Notebook (David Adès)
If you tell the lie, tell it slant but with a direct gaze, with utter conviction, tell it as if you believe it is truth, again and again – and …
Orison for Sheet Music Stores in the American Mid-West (Gregory Horne)
after Kurt Sepmeier’s reading of Michael Drayton’s ‘Since There’s No Help’ * The gasp ‘last!’ long-distance-wise largely because of our situations, po- tentially we knew it was futile and all …
The Hard Earth (Heather Taylor Johnson)
There is a mountain, my son, between us and from this side, here at the bottom where I am dressed appropriately in morning robe, where house mice scurry under the …
Riding back in the dusk (Anne M Carson)
Malmsbury, Victoria There’s no black like the black of trees silhouetted against sunset; matt, boot-black black. Baked-on Bakelite black, back-lit by the sky’s citrus tones – mandarin, orange and lemon …