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 …
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 …
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 …
Spit Hood (Teena McCarthy)
for Don Dale detainee Dylan Voller and all those held in detention and suffering deaths in custody Oh, such a pretty picture this Kingdom of the Crown. In a dark …
Common Tongue (Miguel Jacq)
i. A weekday, cocooned somewhere in my twenties, one father and his son suspended in a lift shaft an everyday moment, a faraday cage moment until a phone call makes …
Three Poems by Frank Webb (Oliver Miller)
I grew up on Sydney’s leafy lower North Shore. Taking out a dinghy from old Joel’s Boatshed at the end of our street, making the long row over to Wreck …
Why You Stopped Making Things (Lucy Dougan)
The Wallpaper The wallpaper was a forest. You had put it up with your father. You let me into the new dappled world behind your desk. When you sat in …
George’s town pt. 2
Artist’s Statement ‘George’s town pt. 2’ explores distance, diaspora, and the hidden truths of familial betrayal and the taste of disappointment. Footage from a trip to Hong Kong in 2014 …