I swallow this impatient country like a testament to Adam, the sun a corrugated pit, apricot rusted on my tongue we were dead men, …
In Sympathy (K. S. Moore)
What you once called vixen, you now mourn — loss of her burgundy crown, loss of her tawny eyes. Her lips no longer ssh you, neither do they speak of …
Double Paradise (Okwudili Nebeolisa)
Though I was asleep your voice slit through me like a scythe, I was enjoying the dream. I wished the water was like glass and that I could sit on …
LADY OF THE MURALS (Stephen Oliver)
‘The memory of you keeps calling after me like a rolling train.’ — Bob Dylan & Sam Shepard: Brownsville Girl ‘Out of a headstrong cloud column emerged one square-rigged ship, …
The Light Fantastic (Mark O’Flynn)
GRASSHOPPER, 1889 Stuck fast the grasshopper in Van Gogh’s painting Olive Grove has achieved some immortality, at least so far as it goes for grasshoppers. Like Pharaohs eviscerated, or thylacines …
How to Fall out of a Pine Tree (Nathanael O’Reilly)
Select the tallest tree in the backyard and reach up with both hands grasp the lowest branch place your right foot against the trunk at waist-height support your weight with …
The System Won’t Save Us (Alison Flett)
(an unlucky sonnet) Not the white of everything nor everything white not our date and place of birth nor our current address not Triage nor Admissions, not Emergency nor Recovery …
World Tree (Andrew Sutherland)
The day I tested positive, I walked from the clinic at the quay to my old university. And, I am sorry to admit, as I walked through the city — a …
Box kite (Vanessa Page)
An ending: the night falling, softly indigo over Clontarf Beach. Human activity roughed in, abstract: inside the rim of winter — the two of us moving slowly, and further distant …
ringtail, in memoriam
(Rae White)
5 ∇ on route to work, i see you: pelt shadowed & swollen with rain, your eyes quarter-closed. next day you sleep in shrubbery, footpath streaked with ants as they …