December 2018
Selectors: Coral Carter, Amanda Joy, Rose van Son & Gary De Piazzi
Submissions Manager: Gary De Piazzi
Contributors:
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after the laundry
hanging my clothes
and my head
Minh-Triêt Pham, Paris, France
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sideways snow
pouring more tea
for a distant guest
new year’s day
the forgotten flower pot
blossoms
Brent Goodman, Rhinelander, Wisconsin USA
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breast feeding
under the tree
white magnolias
Guliz Mutlu, Turkey
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icy river
the canopy
of bare trees
flood water
the crow perches
on a dead fish
Hifsa Ashraf, Pakistan
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icy path
I follow the clouds
of father’s breath
Rachel Sutcliffe, England
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on the corner
a hat
with no coins
Barry Sanbrook, Perth, Western Australia
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the river
blue yarn looping
through fingers
red leaf
on the doorstep
her lipsticky smile
country bakery
only sliced white
Jan Napier, Perth, Western Australia
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fallen banksia its blood-red stump
cool change
a moth flutters
from my wrap
strangler figs
I lose my sense
of direction
Nathalie Buckland
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brushing my hair
the reflection of my
mother’s hands
willy-willy
tea leaves spiral
in my billy can
soft breeze
the secrets my sister
and I shared
divorce papers
twenty years of love letters
shredded
skinny-dipping
in the outback river
paperbark trees
Maureen Sexton, Perth, Western Australia
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construction cranes
from the lookout–
feeding ibis
oncology ward
laughter mingles
with beeping machines
Marilyn Humbert, Australia
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lavender fields
my daughter’s
good morning kiss
Radostina Dragostinova, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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midnight my rent money in the hooker’s boot
Panagiotis Kentikelenis, Thessaloniki, Greece
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parting kiss
the sunflowers
turn away
lyrebirds mating
in the gully
mix tape
artist in residence
the intricate patterns
of a spider’s web
Louise Hopewell, Melbourne, Australia
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end of days
writing on the back cover
of my journal
rescent moon its C in the sea
David J. Kelly, Dublin, Ireland
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flower petals fall
peeling off clothes
one by one
travelling north
windscreen wipers flick east
then west
Gary Colombo De Piazzi, Perth, Western Australia
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zucchini vine
gnawed leafless–
one blossom
Elaine Wilburt
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country market
a cockroach strolls
past the pesticides
Cynthia Rowe
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housebound
he sketches me
into the landscape
Alanna C. Burke, Santa Fe, USA
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harvesting night
an arc of moondust
from the auger
Debbie Strange, Winnipeg, Canada
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sunbathing
his gaze gets
under her skin
Pitt Büerken, Münster, Germany
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forest bathing–
the sound of one hand
slapping flies
idle thoughts–
the mirror returns
my smile
Nika
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warm bed
the music
of rain
Leanne Mumford, Sydney, Australia
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rock ledge
the roar
of falling river
rock wall
jasmine vines
find a hold
Gavin Austin, Sydney, Australia
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winter stars
we light
the last match
Stephen Toft, Lancaster, United Kingdom
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warm night–
the small space
between our hands
Liv Saint James, Melbourne, Australia
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moonlit park
married men
in bushes
drunk men holler
my hand
you release
Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Perth, Western Australia
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sun floods
on cracked mud
forgotten river
Jahan Tyson
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