It’s the give of the earth: a shifting of clods under her running feet. Most of the children’s graves in the cemetery are marked with stones with names and dates …
THE COURAGE TO LOVE: Amanda Hickey reviews Bodies of Men by Nigel Featherstone
Review by Amanda Hickey Edited by Robyn Cadwallader What is it about war that can rapidly bring men to the point of love? In their everyday lives they may have …
Dhalbin Yinaargal
(Michelle Vlatkovic)
Yinaargal come together by a fire burning eurah and sandalwood. Smoke fans away distractions that distance us. Each one of us silently places a small branch in the fire. Letting …
The nature of loss
(Audrey Molloy)
Widow-makers, they call your boughs that plunge without warning, crush soft bodies beneath. Yet I know you are not death but grief’s balled fist come down. For seven years I decompose below your …
The Smoke from Burning Bridges (Jennifer Compton)
(Edited by Kathryn Hummel) What did he do after he had pressed his ultimate Send at 1-49 am? Weep, pray, rant? Reach for a bottle? Rush into the street? Lie …
Braided Veins
(Raymond Luczak)
Braided Veins as we grow up as twins youd speculate this or that bully would probably grow to be bald & fat i would laugh at the notion saying it …
The Gift (Peter Farrar)
(Edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) Bushfire smoke tasted in rain. I opened my mouth. Rain tingled, drying on my tongue the way it did on concrete. I stopped at the rear …
Yo Soy Mexico City
(Atreyee Gupta)
Yo soy poderosa, yo soy abultado — El Monstruo I beat with the syncopated rhythm of twenty-five million hearts criss-crossing my sinking calles Me quema con potencial bajo del decaimiento …
The Fourth Time
(Scott-Patrick Mitchell)
Happens in the ‘90s. You can tell by the fashion: cut-off denim shorts; 10 hole Docs; tie-dye t-shirt; pierced nose that cost five bucks from the local chemist (such punk …
Pezzi (Josephine Clarke)
hanging on the line torn cloth, too threadbare for sheets but good enough for you for between your legs on the cursed days clots caught slipping as you walked the …