December 2011
Selectors: Rose van Son, Meryl Manoy, Amanda Joy & Gary De Piazzi
Managing Editor: Karen Murphy
Contributors:
an old jam post
invisibly extended
the Mopoke
Graeme Butler
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wind brings rain clouds in
dry washing strains
against the pegs
she has ppl 🙂
cannot talk
i have lnlnss 🙁
and need to
Coral Carter
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a blue-green shimmer
on the windowsill
dead fly
red callistemon
yellow ring-neck parrot
against blue sky
Sally Clarke
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silent
the first leaf fall
morning
heron poised
its rippled likeness
the only movement
side by side
footprints on the foreshore
threads in a rug
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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propped
against tomorrow
40W
nothing as cool
as the other side
of the pillow
Kevin Gillam
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craggy hands
the dark horizon
trees
unbroken chain
rope pulling no weight
black
caterpillars
Tanya Jaw
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preening ducks
lift their wings –
a flash of green
thud
fruit falls
from the lemon tree
Meryl Manoy
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narrow inlet –
casuarina needles
caught in the ripples
shark spotting plane
the sand crab
digs deep
blueberry ash
a new shoot unfurls
over blackened ground
weathered seat…
wrapped in the greenness
of palm fronds
first rain
after the fire …
frogs calling
Cynthia Rowe
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