September 2017
Selectors: Amanda Joy, Rose van Son and Gary De Piazzi
Contributors:
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his last days
the spider crawling inside
a mushroom
Gabriel Bates
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wave
on wave on wave
wind across wheatfields
Marilyn Humbert. Australia
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half-way across
the bridge –
winter chill
Julian O’Dea. Canberra, Australia
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harvest night –
inside the combine
cicadas’ song
Goran Gatalica. Croatia
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a blackbird’s trill
marks the end of her song –
the obituaries
Michael H. Lester. Los Angeles, USA
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hospital news
she dead heads
the rose bush
Bee Jay, Melbourne, Victoria
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pony’s eye
her face
smiles back
Gary Colombo De Piazzi. Perth, Australia
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lizard in
a woodpile looking
for its tree
Andrew Burke
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heatwave –
. a passing parade
. of budgie smugglers
Parliament –
. foxes on both sides
. of the rabbit-proof fence
Lorin Ford. Melbourne, Australia
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paper wasp
. the dog tests
. the cat-flap
Cynthia Rowe
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midnight sun
the ferris wheel pauses
top of the world
Devin Harrison. Vancouver Island, Canada
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my teenage diaries
clothes that don’t fit
any more
Louise Hopewell. Melbourne, Australia
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graveyard snow
the call and answer
of chickadees
dandelions –
every bee flecked
with light
Debbie Strange. Winnipeg, Canada
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unloading
her baggage –
uninvited guest
up early
counting syllables
I miss the sunrise
Debbi Antebi
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