(painting & poetry for Nanna) black by day white by night this broken ol’ town all battered and burned high gutters in case of a storm silver & gold yes! …
INsects (Anna Spargo-Ryan)
On windy days she went back to the building to find the shreds of skin he had left there. She caught the elevator to the top floor. It swagged in …
The Incandescent (Chris Lynch)
And you. When you saunter in, glowing like a tomboy, blue as a blowtorch and blazing. Made of glass you would shatter, but born of fire you can burn, like …
Poems by Juan Garrido-Salgado and Ariel Riveros Pavez
(edited by Ramon Loyola) Changing Places to Sleep Not for Political / Security Reasons After the Reading at Sappho Last Night By Juan Garrido-Salgado To Beth Spencer and Claudia Taranto …
Love Song (Sandra Renew)
beneath her scarf, her honour— everything lowers to its haunches, puffs out its cheeks vulnerable to reality even hope sinks. I would blow my hope alive with my last breath …
Mercury (Ben Hession)
Estrangement has its latitudes, the most hospitable to residency, here: trembling, trying to avoid extremes — every day you are busy celebrating two birthdays, slowly, you can have your medication and …
O ANIMUS (Annie Blake)
I didn’t want anything more. In the little aboriginal house, the shower fell with the cup of water that was evenly distributed. I wanted you there. You were there. Our …
Carolina (Greg McLaren)
Shogun from Royal Headache, in the clip for Carolina, hawked and spat out of their monochrome practice room into colour Petersham — Fed Era red brick Reg Mombasa through Sydney …
Your Writing Tastes Like Blood (Gemma Ann White)
(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 …