Selectors : Coral Carter, Rose van Son, Gary De Piazzi and Barry Sanbrook
Contributors
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stiff fingers –
a glove lost
to the wind
moss-covered steps
my footprint
lingers
Prema Arasu
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treetop mist
the valley road
between horse ears
morning light
in the ash canopy
shards of sky
a rainbow
spans the lake
lorikeets
Gavin Austin
Sydney, Australia
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empty house
a pear rots
in the fruit bowl
new computer–
there seems to be more grey
in my hair
suburbia–
a single frog calls from
next door’s garden
Monday morning
small toys in
unexpected nooks
Nathalie Buckland
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blackberrying
others again faster
than me
the antipodes
always wide awake
at my dawn
Pitt Büerken
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weeping willow
cat o’ nine tails
lashes cyclist’s face
greying crowd
at the book launch
the chatter of monkeys
Rohan Buettel
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birthday
suddenly strangers
call me ma’am
Alanna C. Burke
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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sunset –
the darkness left
in a kookaburra’s laugh
speeding taillights –
the cat’s
still eyes
graveside lilies
we lay our feud
to rest
Isabel Caves
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43 degrees
birdbath nimbed by bees
Julie Constable
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wisteria
over the wooden trellis
purple grapes
chickens
scratch and peck at the soil
my dinner
Stella Damarjati
Adelaide, South Australia
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east wind
a sharp knife through
thin clothes
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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the empty
robin’s nest –
her anorexia
snow on the roof
the cold between
us
Radostina Dragostinova
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dawn chimney
a hooded crow steals the dregs
of last night’s heat
a hawk above
the silence of birds
below
Mike Gallagher, Ireland
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wisps of tobacco –
a fisherman neglects
his loneliness
pond stillness –
my father’s fishing rod sways
among the shadows
Goran Gatalica, Croatia
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garbage day –
birds singing
rip it up
Pat Geyer
East Brunswick, NJ USA
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evening chill
the train’s shadow glides
over spinifex
dry river bed
waves of sand
around rock
Lorraine Haig
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old love letters
the spill I need
to light a fire
physics teacher
the mind splits into
many pieces
bailing bucket
up to my waist in water
this old wooden boat
Devin Harrison,
Vancouver Island, Canada
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the instagrammer says
she just wants to fit in
neon sign
climate action rally
a trampled bed
of succulents
spring sunshine
a myna gets friendly
with the car window
Louise Hopewell
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waning moon
the last oak leaf
lets go
Marilyn Humbert
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sand flies
their orbits
collide
sniffing
all the spices
– my search for home
Roberta Beach Jacobson
Indianola, Iowa, USA
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passing cloud –
a line of kiss-me-quicks
on the cliff face
frosty lawn
the old man trims
his goatee
blossoms
the bus turns
into sunshine
the introvert
on his cheek the tattoo
of a freckle
Myron Lysenko
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pots of rocket
gone to seed
jail break
cabbages flourish
on shattered sons –
Fromelles
Diana Messervy
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rising sun
so much sky
to cloud
tangled headphones
unthread a meditation
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
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ancient fig
I step into
coolness
in and out
of the high tide line
dingo prints
Leanne Mumford
Sydney, Australia
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Ursa stars –
what the lights
are hiding
Margherita Petriccione
Scauri (LT) Italy
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shady lane
a fern dots the ‘i’
of graffiti
cottage for sale
magpie geese tilling
the front lawn
bridal bouquet –
the florist unclips
her cupid brooch
Cynthia Rowe
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seedbed
in a box
a mini forest
the printed word
blackens
his finger tips
Barry Sanbrook
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topless beach
she swears she hasn’t seen
my glasses
doorbell
a politician asks
for my help
Greg Schwartz, USA
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school play
to an audience
of mobile phones
Maureen Sexton
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after the storm
mother’s missed call
Manoj Sharma
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country school
dust devils spin from
our bicycles
beach stones
I relax the muscles
in my forehead
Debbie Strange
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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winter twilight
his side of the bed
still empty
Neha Talreja
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same moon
six hours later –
his airmail letters
Elaine Wilburt, Easton, USA
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