wax and wane deep in the trench ancient reefs lie submerged — their skeletons remember when the cryosphere stretched taut over continents these drowned cities gleam grey like marcasite — …
Professional Dreamers (Gemma White)
10 professional dreamers do not show their ideas to just anyone no professional dreamers do not boast of their plans to unbelievers professional dreamers put on their black skirts and …
Bug pond (Carl Walsh)
Algae rusts the surface Daring us to become water treaders and step A water boatman sculls over the water — Charon ferrying dead souls Of needlebugs and backswimmers In absentia, …
As a First Resort, That Girl in the Snow (Rose Hunter)
Favourite wide, lowball glass Smirnoff with frosting, cold dear fur pour it in, pour it. Kiwi and guava, mix it in the colour of pale Pepto-Bismol, donut frosting and unicorns, …
Wings (Jasmine Ledesma)
Report Summary patient is twenty years old / hair curled with cherry stems / speaks fast as divorce / hasn’t slept in three days / patient answers questions with more …
The Reject Shop (Linda Godfrey)
The pills made you larger and that security guard at Westfield’s didn’t help, chasing you around, you thought it was the pills making you larger, you wanted to get to …
Unnerved (Jan Dean)
A Robert Dickerson Survey, Newcastle Art Gallery, 2019 Huge skies, rivers, oceans and lakes are liquid sails of aqua and ultramarine floating me past a type of humanity; tourists who …
Dilectus (Carly-Jay Metcalfe)
And so, it is weeks now. Not a year, not months; the anticipation of chemotherapy expired. Just the work of grief, the clipping of loose ends, the tucking under of …
Blood Sport (Penelope Layland)
Ruin porn Walls skinned by spalling, scalloped as vertebrae with a twist. Gyprock musty as summer sheets— 3am, again at 6. Shadows attach to ambiguous shapes through windows with no …
Bildungsroman (Jen Webb)
A history of speech I like a door that sounds decisive when you close it a child who knows precisely when to hang up the phone the historian who discourses …