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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 …

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Alice Allan

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 …

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Nathanael O'Reilly

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 …

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Penelope Cottier

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 …

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Graham Akhurst

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 …

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David Ades

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 …

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Raphael Kabo

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 …

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Mark William Jackson

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 …

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Barbara NicholsonBrenda Saunders

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 …

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David StavangerThe Special

The Flu Hour (Douglas Luman)

At the note of an owl’s hoot,  a field  mouse  is  made  into  a  packet for its suffering. &  here I set  to  nonsense,  boiling  a  house  worth of   …

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Douglas Luman
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