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 …
Causes (An Jin)
Tram Accident tram driver tells me I’m going to die I think about being a mess they can’t get out of the tracks I think about delays on the line …
REMEMBERING A DISREMEMBERED PAST: Brenda Saunders reviews Jeanine Leane’s Walk Back Over
Edited by Robyn Cadwalader In this consistently strong collection Janine Leane takes us on a journey. The title, Walk Back Over asks us to step back, take another look at …
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 …
Stains on a Map (Linda Godfrey)
too late to hill up asparagus to blanch it, to drink tea in a Russian port in winter, torpedo the Atlantic. Reflux stains the map with the telling of your …
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 …
A Series of Scenarios in the Place of the Mad
(Colin Hambrook)
Fish Eye and The Mirror He is thrown into a gap, down to the centre of the earth, opening like a womb down to the core of creation. And all …