(a) Humpty Dumpty rocked on the well, Humpty Dumpty tumbled to Hell. The King’s twelve fledglings, the King’s four colts couldn’t put Humpty together, the dolts. (e) ‘Baa, baa, …
Blessing (brand-spanking new radar poetry from the completely marvelous Nathan Curnow)
It came rushing toward me across the paddocks all I had to do was stand—the moment roaring silent and ancient, collapsing into bloom. How it called to no one, especially …
Flicker (Kevin Brophy)
The last shadow left quietly, almost without personality, flickering as it left like a movement from a horse at the far end of a paddock caught in the corner of …
Gravely Critique (Richard Bell)
In my tomb of words built by the sentences that didn’t make sense Typing errors line my coffin burying me in out-of-place punctuation Every grammatical mistake on display for people …
Evolution of a Kind (Mark William Jackson)
How do we rule? In words derived from Latin? Whispers from a dead tongue? Rolling with the punches, crippled by the lunches, feasts of fat men suffering in …
What Does It Mean? (Emilie Collyer)
O One One has One his has be One it his mean has this be One I it when his .mean something has before this Can be ? One the …
Sail (Sam van Zweden)
I heard they built streets in Europe on dead river beds throwing down tiles in denial when it rains streets flood al fresco floating down stream deluge-diluted lattes gondolas …
A Grave Turn (Ashley Capes)
streets have a saliva sheen, the stones bathing in it. fog is school-pants grey, thick on the tongue. the older trams shudder until they stop and the conductor retires. drunks …
Bag Bog Cat, the Caterpillar an’ the Glue Man (Andrew Galan)
Horse serrations vibrate floorboards ta’ squeal a rockin’ billycock woe · · an’ we was diggin’ ditches an’ shovelin’ mud an’ burnin’ faeces when the Caterpillar said sorry, sorry was for …
The Upstairs Food Court (Andrew Galan)
Rubber tyre rolls bain-marie aisles grips heavy toddler centrifugally snug three kids run beside reaching pushing scream delight across fluorescent tiles tread bounces down metal staircase arm waves round’n’round …