March 2023
Selectors: Coral Carter, Rose van Son, Barry Sanbrook, Gary De Piazzi
Contributors:
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a mother wipes
her son’s tears—
sunflower
Lorelyn De.la Cruz Arevalo
Bombon, Philippines
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mom’s memory
in the kitchen garden
wild roses
Hifsa Ashraf
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blackbird song
morning
skims the rooftops
champagne
with a new lover
the same moon
Gavin Austin
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night bus
the full moon
gets a free ride
R. Suresh Babu
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the joy of colours—
sliced white bread
with sprinkles
worn steps
from church
to tavern
neighbour’s eye level
the permanent bend
in a slat of his blinds
Ingrid Baluchi
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bumpy road—-
the family ties
I want to forget
gust of wind—
the balancing act
of a crow
Mona Bedi
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winter smokers
in the hospital carpark
the company of crows
Rohan Buettel
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spring sunshine—
the roof down
on her convertible
Anne Curran
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walking past—
snagged by the ladder in
her fishnet stockings
paperbark—
exasperated writer
discards another sheet
bamboo grove—
in the pool
so many leaves
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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dark room
finding the shape of
each other
seven swallows
on the telephone wire
zoom session
Mike Gallagher
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the little swing
empty now
his laugh lingers
Candy Gordon
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covid summer
another wave
rushes in
Sherry Grant
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beside a STOP sign
a STOP sign
new year’s day
clouds moving
in opposite directions
Matt Hetherington
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country lane
a kelpie rounds up
passing cyclists
Louise Hopewell
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early sunset
the “i” and “me”
in “Alzheimer’s”
Edward Cody Huddleston
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apple orchard sun kissed pickers
Marilyn Humbert
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melting icicles—
he waits for a friend
to come out
evacuation drill—
first one outside
a housefly
Samo Kreutz
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power outage
my only light
lightning
Chris Langer
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how still the waves
we cast
her ashes
Earl Livings
Melbourne, Victoria
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bombed house—
on the wall
a suffering Christ
John Low
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alone on the verge
shower chair
the last of her
Diana Messervy
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stealing
his grevillea
with my camera
Julian O’Dea
Canberra
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beachcomber
a sand crab catches
the next wave
his regular ritual
the plunging dive
of a gannet
Cynthia Rowe
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old town
the clock in the fort
too slow
Srini S
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city canal
the upside-down
of everything
burying the dog
I deepen the hole
inside myself
Tomislav Sjekloća
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sticky heat
watermelon pips
all around me
Tom Staudt
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I make two cups of tea
and pretend
she’s still here
Kaelin Stemmler
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faded trail marker
pheasant tracks point
the way
school bell
coyote pups tumble
out of their den
Debbie Strange
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spring festival—
each cherry blossom
a ticket
forest of unicorns—
the little boy’s hair
while sleeping
Steliana Cristina Voicu
Ploiesti, Romania
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peeling potatoes a woman Vermeer did not paint
Alice Wanderer
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