it is silent my open door lets in a cool pre-dawn breath my husband is asleep everyone to the north south east and west of me is asleep i love …
Bloom (Les Wicks)
Suburbs now have their community gardens. Husbands buried there turn the pages of books abandoned because the heroine fretted too much to actually do anything. This ambition to compost sees …
Animal (Kit Kelen)
a kind of creature my love comes of its own wilderness furry here and there dangling with suspended eye might have been a rock but moves and proves the eye …
Migraine (Stuart Barnes)
A pain in the neck. Brume spuming at the eye’s dead centre, odd digits prodding sockets, inner ear’s even keel. Eely fevers no anal -gesic can truly cure. Half-mask …
Man out of Time (Justin Lowe)
he was everyone’s friend everyone’s confidante he slotted in nicely under a crooked arm he was a kind of bellwether people would cross the room to greet him they always …
yūgen (Jan Dean)
almost me, almost you imagine you were meant to be half of two but disturbance caused absorption a rush of …
Inside my head
(Susan Hawthorne)
for my father Inside my head are patterns a quilt of paddocks seen from the cockpit of the Tiger Moth the coastline is drawn in waves, crumpled like silk maps …
To Miscarry a Moon (Ojo Taiye)
ELEGY FOR CLAUDIA PATRICIA GOMEZ GONZALEZ* i- every poem i write is about the same grief: how ordinary it is to want the American dream. i don’t know what Gomez …
Leaving (Nathan Curnow)
The Leaving Poem pack it all up, my love we’ll go to that place beyond them let them sleep and forget about us leave the key in the spot, they’ll …
Apparitions
(Anthony Lawrence)
The Brindle Horses The brindle horses have been put out to pasture wearing their golden plumes. In certain light they appear as muscled apparitions out of a pop-up book for …