He doesn’t follow when she dances in her room. She moves with rhythm through the special confusion reserved for housemates who develop affection at different paces. They sit outside playing …
All the blond Jesuses (intriguing new poetry from the extra-clever and wonderfully unique PS Cottier)
You see them wriggle free of windows, lithe as silver fish, but golden-haired. These Jesuses, blond sons of blond Marys, head out the door to play cricket, with leather and …
Lipograms: five nursery rhymes reworked (Stuart Barnes)
(a) Humpty Dumpty rocked on the well, Humpty Dumpty tumbled to Hell. The King’s twelve fledglings, the King’s four colts couldn’t put Humpty together, the dolts. (e) ‘Baa, baa, …
Blessing (brand-spanking new radar poetry from the completely marvelous Nathan Curnow)
It came rushing toward me across the paddocks all I had to do was stand—the moment roaring silent and ancient, collapsing into bloom. How it called to no one, especially …
Flicker (Kevin Brophy)
The last shadow left quietly, almost without personality, flickering as it left like a movement from a horse at the far end of a paddock caught in the corner of …
Gravely Critique (Richard Bell)
In my tomb of words built by the sentences that didn’t make sense Typing errors line my coffin burying me in out-of-place punctuation Every grammatical mistake on display for people …
Evolution of a Kind (Mark William Jackson)
How do we rule? In words derived from Latin? Whispers from a dead tongue? Rolling with the punches, crippled by the lunches, feasts of fat men suffering in …
What Does It Mean? (Emilie Collyer)
O One One has One his has be One it his mean has this be One I it when his .mean something has before this Can be ? One the …
Sail (Sam van Zweden)
I heard they built streets in Europe on dead river beds throwing down tiles in denial when it rains streets flood al fresco floating down stream deluge-diluted lattes gondolas …
A Grave Turn (Ashley Capes)
streets have a saliva sheen, the stones bathing in it. fog is school-pants grey, thick on the tongue. the older trams shudder until they stop and the conductor retires. drunks …