Malmsbury, Victoria There’s no black like the black of trees silhouetted against sunset; matt, boot-black black. Baked-on Bakelite black, back-lit by the sky’s citrus tones – mandarin, orange and lemon …
fuel oxygen ignition (Alice Allan)
you’ve mellowed quite a bit your tinsel compliment a night in the country all grown up standing under a floodlight watching hundreds of winged hopefuls fling themselves at the whitegold …
Greek Summer (Nathanael O’Reilly)
For Tricia On the road from Patras to Corinth, I piss in petrol station toilets paved with marble, eat lamb, potatoes, tomatoes and feta, break bread worthy of dreams. In …
Carrying an injury (Penelope Cottier)
He cradles it, tender as any Mary ever caught in stained-glass web. Injury does not scream, but purrs, a kitten formed from bandages, rocked in the player’s embrace. Tender as …
Master of the Ghost Dreaming (Graham Akhurst)
A bloodied sunset reminds us That ghosts come from the ocean in the dark They bellow on trumpets And greedily watch sails flex Drawing them closer They leave their dreaming …
The Burden of Wings (David Adès)
At first, everything was blurred, beyond comprehension. Testing, I hovered above, taking in a new perspective, strange, troubling. I watched myself retreat, backed into a corner, on my knees, in …
Notes for a Small Revolution (Raphael Kabo)
One. Turn on the halogen lamps. See: The shed fills with light so golden You could knit it into a story. Happyeverafter fairytale where the prince Always marries his prince …
A BOX OF MATCHES (Mark William Jackson)
(Edited by Stuart Barnes) once I bought a box of matches because someone said it was art but regardless of what you call it it’s a box of firesticks …
Taxi! (Brenda Saunders) & Transformative Progress (Barbara Nicholson)
Taxi! by Brenda Saunders I met her at the lights with six plastic bags Food bought at Woollies with a Salvo’s card making for the taxis on Pitt and Park …
The Special (David Stavanger)
the Psychiatrist the Psychiatrist can sign you away the Psychiatrist can give you a script or several pills depending on the diagnosis pills to start having an erection again pills …