after Sylvia Plath’s ‘Lesbos’ Friction In that block Of flats. From six A.M. you’d modernise. I’d hammer, call you Sookie, sook. So scared to relish bareback. Designer duds rook …
Former Child Star (Stuart Barnes)
after Sylvia Plath’s ‘Child’ Your half-moons are the ten absolutely fabulous things. I want to streak them with Covergirl, Puck, Museums of dew Whose waves you intonate – …
Theory of a Shadow (Todd Turner)
Think of a bird now think of its shadow. Imagine a field now picture a lake. Had the shadow not drifted across the field you might have missed a fire-bird …
September on Gasworks Bridge (Todd Turner)
It has been a long day to say the least. Wind, rain, shadows, stone. So I take a walk. Standing on Gasworks Bridge, I watch the river run east, run …
Leaving My Place on the River (Todd Turner)
Standing at the window, looking out onto the river for the last time, I turn my thoughts to a field where I stood as a child. The wind is blowing. …
Incoherence (Gemma White)
Tonight, I’m having you over for dinner. I’ll be licking the storms from your mind like chocolate. (You can thank me later). I’ll be exactly where I always am, dripping …
Friendship (Gemma White)
At Meredith we stayed up all night listening to doof doof cyberpunk music and I saw you cry for the first time, at four in the morning bottle of ice …
Crimson Encounter (Gemma White)
I am seeing red. Bright red nail polish on my toes as they stick out from your doona. War-time red lipstick brightening my mouth, smudged now from your urgent kisses. …
Drink Driving (Susan Austin)
Broken console, dusty dashboard. He pauses to belch before worming the key into the ignition. Outside the pub they stumbled into stained bucket-seat relief – escaped provocations, skins safe against …
Solution (Susan Austin – we follow a sparkling review with sparklingly fresh-as-fresh poetry)
He doesn’t follow when she dances in her room. She moves with rhythm through the special confusion reserved for housemates who develop affection at different paces. They sit outside playing …