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 …
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 …