(For Robbie Coburn) Sacrificial. Long stroke of metal across your chest. Caged. Hot-toed animal wanting to escape. Fear. Incriminating as the first monthly bleed. Gone. Mind so very far from …
Green Dream (Joe Dolce)
Not absinthe or a world without global warming, the barbiturate Nembutal illegally imported, mail-order, in perfume boxes from Mexico, Peru, Bangkok, Beijing, Tijuana (destination of choice for death tourists) available …
Sea of Souls (James Walton)
There’s a cove. A house straggles a sagging beach, where behind a patched blind the Hendrix version of All Along the Watchtower sends its summons through the wave speakers. God …
Safety of shells (Meredith Pitt)
Bivalves diffuse force to their outer edges while screw-shaped shells send the pressure to their outer rings The soft creature is protected from the crushing reality of a weapon in …
The Bridge I Must Walk Across (David Adès)
The Bridge I Must Walk Across Is this what it means to be lost? Stuck inside my skin — unable to shed it, unable to grow another — I am …
Breaking News (Justin Lowe)
there had been no end of rumours of a coup. plates kept clattering in the palace kitchen, the linen-beaters worked strange hours, people began to talk of a giant stalking …
Madera Ranchos (Emily O’Grady)
I eat Peach Jewels warmed on a tea-stained paper plate, fleshy centres rich as yolk— yellow shell flakes and falls like confetti on insect-flecked cement. And though the copper lab …
Poems from Borroloola Poetry Club: Diwurruwurru (Phillip Gijindarriji Hall)
Borroloola is remote town located in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory. It has a population of around 600-700 people in the Dry Season; and approximately 800-1000 people in the …
The Sandpiper (Gregory Piko)
I have flown a wide open ocean where waves break and boil like crested terns in a rookery I have flown a sweeping plain where grasses sway on the breeze …
On the Freeway (Yuan Changming)
Driving through a forest I saw a deer Standing alone still Like what I wish to watch: Every human is so busy Passing by Changming Yuan, a nine-time Pushcart …