March 2020
Selectors: Coral Carter, Rose van Son, Gary De Piazzi and Barry Sanbrook
Contributors
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rock fissure
the softness
of flannel flowers
screams
behind the leering face
Luna Park
coke sign
the winter street
washed red
frosted window
I write your initials
on my breath
Gavin Austin
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how many
seasons
the lines of a poem
loveseat
in office
– divorce attorney
hollow
gift
wind chimes
inching way
from their small talk
my aunts and uncles
Roberta Beach Jacobson
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burnt ground
seeds waiting
for the rain
Pitt Büerken
Münster, Germany
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a fine balance
the fat goose
standing on one leg
the tattoo —
coloured graffiti
on a derelict building
floccinaucinihilipilification
a big word
with little worth
Rohan Buettel
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bookmark
I pick up my life
where I left off
her handwriting
smaller and smaller
dementia
shooting star
one wish
is not enough
Alanna C. Burke
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Hokusai’s Wave
sharpening his claws
a feral cat
after
the neighbourhood quarrel –
crickets
road trip
the many twists
in her tale
family dinner
too much
on her plate
Hemapriya Chellappan
Chennai, India
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room
with a view —
the joey takes a peek
Lysa Collins
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scattered petals
rhythm of raindrops
on puddles
Neelam Dadhwal
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summer clouds
the face of a mourner
darkens
fiasco
a pile of timber that is
not a door
yoga teacher
I find a muscle I didn’t know
I had
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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Cape Jasmine –
even south west monsoon
can’t dampen its scent
Dinesh De Silva
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flowering meadow —
mother’s smart phone
collects my steps
autumn deepens —
the pumpkins colonize
my grandma’s yard
Goran Gatalica
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birds twitter
not fake news
just happy
the silence of clay
in her hands
a conversation
Candy Gordon
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summer twilight
the duelling clicks
of crickets
Marilyn Humbert
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slipping
into the snail shell –
a frail leaf
hum
of the air conditioner –
meditation hall
editing a poem—
a jackdaw pecks
my shadow
Nicholas Klacsanzky
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open house
a lost dog
wanders in
currency exchange
stones rounded
by the sea
still river
the willow
reaches in
clear morning
an ant hurries
in my shadow
Pearl Kline
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hot, still air
blowflies
resting in the shade
notes
of honey and wood smoke
tea festival
Harmony Day
a clamour of cymbals
for the lion dance
young and old
marching in the same direction
only one earth
Leanne Mumford
Sydney, Australia
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grandma’s tea cake
a dusting of icing sugar
decorates our lips
haiku walk one step at a time
summer’s end
I take another plum
from the fridge
Gregory Piko
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cane toad
beside the road – note
to buy face cream
hearing aids
only faintly
birdsong
Cynthia Rowe
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religious art
steeple and cross
cardinal points
the tide turns
a wader’s legs
grow longer
cliff face
a gull’s nest
slides into the sea
Barry Sanbrook
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roundabout
at street’s end
a red shoe
bushfires
on the riverbank
a boat burns
Philip Schofield
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rogue wave
catches
the rock fisher
on the beach
iced tea
brews in the sun
“Oh Macarena”
a party boat
shimmies into the night
photo opp —
then Kylie
turns the other way
Tom Staudt
Darlinghurst, NSW
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homesick
the glint of sunlight
on railway tracks
antelope
the dust we leave
behind
beach cabana
the stripes that never
make me look thin
snow slush
the hems of our jeans
change colour
Debbie Strange
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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cat’s plaything
the final beat
of a wing
roadkill
an industry
of ants
cemetery sun
bleaching
plastic petals
after the funeral
a fridge full
of lasagnas
after the deluge
no trace
of the trail
Jahan Tyson
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holding up my trousers
Orion’s belt
Roger Watson
Hull, UK
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the still creek
holds geese
drifting clouds
seeing floaters—
a tiny spider dangles
from his string
banana moon—
on a diet
again
Elaine Wilburt
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