March 2010
Selection/Editing/Administration Team: Rose Van Son, Dean Meredith, Maureen Sexton
Contributors:
Nicholas Barwell and Liz Nicholls
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missing the fledglings chirp –
I find an empty nest
Nicholas Barwell and Liz Nicholls
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after yoga –
the chant brings
sudden peace
shells
decorate the shore –
grandmother’s pearl brooch
Liz Nicholls
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the cat’s tail
says no
to brussel sprouts
Nicholas Barwell
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spring morning –
our old Siamese
goes away to die
fluttering ensign
the speedboat wash
splits the harbour
maize crop
the backpacker
thumbs a ride
bush walk –
swinging the baby
into tap drips
bellbird –
the roadside cafe
smell of fried eggs
fancy dress –
her eyes behind
the black mask
Cynthia Rowe
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golden leaves
nestle among rubbish
city Autumn
Marilyn Dorothea King
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galah
the brightest feathers
under the wing
burning feet
the screech
of a cricket
tidal flats
a hermit crab drags its shell
over holes
NATURE PARK –
a sparrow squats
on the toilet wall
picnic area
the kookaburra thwacks
a sausage
Quendryth Young
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—- downsizing
—cutting the bodies
burying the skeletons
cyclists
pedalling furiously
to slow aging
John McMullan
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dying day
fishermen casting
long shadows
squawking gulls
at the picnic table
children squabble
sultry morning
magpies probe for food
aerating lawn
Meryl Manoy
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she kicks off
white wedding shoes
sand between the toes
fern garden
through glass
a blue tongue lizard
orange sunflowers
in the tank
a dead goldfish
Sally Clarke
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hair-triggers click:
the chrysalis’s finger’s
metamorphosis
Geoff Stevens
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smoke swirls
in the grass a snake
slithers
her fingers
long and slender
eucalyptus leaves
summer heat
even the strong
bow down
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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