September 2010
Selection/Editing/Administration Team: Rose Van Son, Dean Meredith, Maureen Sexton
Contributors:
a wave
reaches the shore –
circling tern
telegraph pole
a scribbly gum’s pattern
stained green
an echidna
disappears
native grasses
spring tide
a tern kisses the mouth
of the river
the colours
in an oyster shell
clearing sky
wetsuit
a board-rider squeezed
through the tube
the suck
of water on sand …
call of a gull
Quendryth Young
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tight lipped
prising oysters
from rocks
lost in the gorges
I follow the map
of flies on his back
crossing the Nullabor
the bones of my neck
crack as I tilt my head
goodbye note
porous nature of paper
Japanese bath house
big smile
no mask for my body
Amanda Joy
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children
blowing bubbles
chasing rainbows
patchwork shadows
among pine needles
woman knitting
watching lizards
sunning on bricks
I nod off
Meryl Manoy
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autumn
one russet leaf
still clings
hanging basket
honey-eater
probes nodding violet
morning light
on the table
a baby dove
Sally Clarke
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winter’s back
in black and white
her fashion statement
at his post
still watching the tide
one-legged seagull
twilight
a crow in a tree
is a branch
Rod Tinniswood
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winter puddle
oil spill
urban rainbows
summer dawns
tiny fingers grip
anemone
wide streets of old gold towns
sunflowers thrive
Liana Joy Christensen
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tethered
reflections –
boats
on parade
a line of white teeth –
beauty queens
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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along the seashore
a grain of sand
caressed
by an entire ocean
Terry Farrell
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moon rising/
over what has fallen/
distant headlights
Glen Fletcher
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on the veranda
with the roof still dripping an
explosion of sun
my father’s tea
half drunk on a cloth
soaking up spillage
Spring
and over the ancient graves
riots of colour
pot hole
filled to the brim with water
a magpie drinking
winter in my face
Spring’s pale sun warms
my back
Julie Watts
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top real estate views
over a manicured park
a homeless man sits
starving for two days
raising money for the poor
she asks for her prize
sitting patiently
as her photo is taken
the blind woman smiles
Tanya Jaw
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children leave home
replaced
by puppy love
solitary egret
contemplates
its next move
John McMullan
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takeaway wrappers
flap across the park
cockatoos’ picnic
Kate King
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life drawing
the radiator nabbed
by the studio cat
an uprooted gum
sinks into the river…
kite surfer rises
earth hour…
threading beads
by moonlight
frosty night
sorting his socks
into matching pairs
Cynthia Rowe
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